Project Profile
Estimated value: US$25 billion
Pipeline Location: From Mangala to Bhogat (Jamnagar)
Terminal Location: Mangala
Pipeline Length: 670 kms
Terminal Capacity: 205,000 bopd of crude oil
Pipeline Start-up year: 2010
Development Pipeline
The Mangala Development Pipeline (MDP) is the world’s longest continuously heated and insulated pipeline and will have access to 75% of India’s refining capacity.The MDP originates from Mangala Processing Terminal (MPT) in the Mangala Field and passes through two states (Rajasthan and Gujarat), eight districts and travels up to ~670 kms before it reaches its end at the coastal location of Bhogat near Jamnagar on the western coast line of India. About 154 km of the pipeline is in Rajasthan and the rest in Gujarat.
The MDP is a 24\" crude oil pipeline which is using Skin Effect Heat Management System (SEHMS).In addition, there is an intermediate terminal at Viramgam for storage and further pumping to the coast, including a pigging facility. There are two other pigging stations at Sanchore and Wankaner to insert \'pigs\' (pipeline cleaning devices) that are used to clean and inspect the pipeline
The pipeline crosses all major crude oil carrier pipelines in the Western part of India and thus, offers potential of blending the Rajasthan crude with these large crude carrier lines. As it terminates at coastal location, the marine facilities are designed to load the crude oil carriers to transport the crude oil to other coastal refiners as well.
The project is divided into two phases:
Phase I: From MPT to Salaya, in Gujarat, via a storage and pumping terminal at Viramgam (in the district of Ahmedabad). It includes spur lines to connect to private refiners and another spur line at Radhanpur to connect with the Indian Oil Corporation Limited’s (IOCL’s) Mundra to Panipat crude pipeline.Since then, oil was introduced in the pipeline on 13 May 2010 and has began commercial sales to IOCL and private refiners.
Phase II: From Salaya to the Bhogat terminal on the Arabian Sea coast, and a pipeline connecting the terminal to the marine facilities.This Salaya to Bhogat pipeline extension project consists of three main components:
1. Extension of the pipeline with associated heating stations from Salaya to the Bhogat terminal.
2. Coastal crude oil storage terminal at Bhogat.
3. Marine export facilities, consisting of twin 24” sub-sea pipeline connecting the Bhogat terminal to the SPM (Single Point Mooring). The SPM is located ~ 6 km off shore in the Arabian Sea and is equipped to load the AFRAMAX type tankers.
Construction work on the ~80 km Salaya to Bhogat section of the pipeline including the Bhogat terminal and marine facility is in progress with completion targeted for the second quarter 2012.
Processing Terminal
Spread over an area of 1.6 km2, the MPT is designed to process crude from the Mangala, Bhagyam and Aishwariya fields - collectively known as the MBA fields and has a capacity to process 205,000 bopd of crude; and has been designed with sufficient flexibility to be later expanded to process more crude, depending upon the resource potential of the block. Four processing trains are being built to ensure that Cairn is able to produce and process the approved peak plateau production.
Processing crude oil from four trains requires the MPT to have an extensive water heating, circulating and recycling system, gas recovery systems, heat and power systems and built-in fire and safety systems. The infrastructure to and from the MPT involves some 500 km of intra and inter-field pipelines and 80 km of inter-field roads.Development drilling and well completion activities are progressing well.
Operators:
Cairn Energy India with 100% interest