(BS)
Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) has got clearance from the Odisha Pollution Control Board for expansion of its Paradip-Haldia-Durgapur LPG pipeline (PHDPL). “The consent was given for the new pumping station at Balasore”, said P C Choubey, executive director, South Eastern Region Pipelines (SERPL), Bhubaneswar, of IOCL. The approval was granted under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution), Act, 1981.
The Paradip-Balasore section of the Paradip-Haldia-Durgapur LPG pipeline (PHDPL) is already operational for delivery of LPG to IOCL’s bottling plant in Balasore. With an estimated length of about 678 km, PHDPL’s originating pump station is located at Paradip, with Balasore, serving as the scrapper and delivery station. With a capacity of 0.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa), the pipeline would transport LPG from Paradip, the Haldia refinery and Indian Oil Petronas to LPG bottling plants in Balasore, Budge Budge, Kalyani, and Durgapur.
