The
company has entered into EPC Contracting of Cross
Country Gas & Oil Pipelines since 2004.
After
the Oil & Gas sector has been opened up in India, and
the demand of energy per capita has been rising steadily
with the growth in economy, the demand of Pipelines for
natural gas and petroleum products in India has been witnessing
a spurt. The phenomenon has been replicated in many parts
of world and as a result, more and more pipelines are being
set up in various parts of the world to facilitate transport
connectivity between farthest point to the source.
Natural
gas has emerged as the dominant source of additional energy
in world. There exists a huge deficit of natural gas based
on current production and demand data in India. While additional
gas quantities, almost equal to existing gas production
in the country, are in an advanced stage of preparation
to be made available through LNG and new gas finds, the
infrastructure to transport this gas to demand centers is
required to be augmented and partly built afresh. It is
projected that an estimated 5,000 kms of big-inch gas pipelines
will be set up in next 3-5 years in India.
Although
almost 4,000 Kms of new pipelines have been built in India
in the last 3-4 years, the pipeline network available in
India today is still inadequate to transport the natural
gas & petroleum products to demand centers in an efficient,
safe and environment friendly way. To meet the growing demand
and in view of the awareness of people towards environment,
it is projected that over 2,000 kms of product and crude
oil pipelines will be built in next 4-5 years.
Kalpataru
has over the last 5 years built a full-fledged organization
to take forward our Pipeline business, led by highly experienced
and competent persons, who are well-respected in the pipeline
industry in India. More & more internationally experienced
& qualified professionals are joining the division regularly
making it a formidable contender in the industry.
Along
with a well experienced team, the company has made large
investments in specialized pipeline equipments to sieze
the opportunity available in the EPC contracting of Oil
& Gas pipelines for clients such as GAIL, IOCL, HPCL,
BPCL, GSPC, Reliance, HMEL etc in India and for PDO, OGC,
ADNOC, DEPA, ARAMCO & Petronas etc. internationally.
Kalpataru
lays down very high emphasis on health, safety and environment
aspects besides high standards of quality to be maintained
in accordance with company’s Safety & Quality
Policy and manuals. Due to continued training and unabated
surveillance of implementation of safety practices at site,
Kalpataru has clocked over 15 Million man-hours at various
projects in the last 5 years without a single Lost time
Injury (LTI).
As a strategy, we have set up a Welders’ training
center at Gandhinagar, where we bring qualified young welders
and train them up for cross-country operations and down-hill
welding. They form a reserve pool for us to draw from for
our various projects. These welders are trained for zero
defect welding. We have on our rolls a large number of other
skilled personnel from other pipeline disciplines, who are
also regularly trained and kept in reserve.
BREAKTHROUGH ACHIEVEMENTS
In
2006 we completed our first contract for the construction
of 16” dia x 386 Kms and 8” dia x 56 Kms product
Pipeline from Laban (near Kota) to Bijwasan (Delhi) for
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) worth Rs. 830 Million
(USD 17 Mn). The contract was secured by the company’s
International Pipeline partner, who bid for the Project
with our support and was executed on EPC basis by Kalpataru
as back to back contractor.
We
have also completed a 18" x 110 kms gas pipeline from
Vijaipur to Kota from GAIL in Feb, 2007, followed by a prestigious
Rs 1.8 Bn (USD 36 Mn) project from Panvel to Dabhol (Part
B) of 30" x 74 kms Pipeline running through a hostile
rocky & mountainous terrain from GAIL, which was successfully
completed on schedule in 2007. Both these projects were
executed on EPC basis in consortium with our International
partner.
Kalpataru is at an advanced stage of completion for an EPC
contract of 427 kms, 24" crude oil pipeline in Madhya
Pradesh for the Vadinar-Bina Pipeline Project of Bharat
Oman Refinery Ltd. having estimated contract value of Rs.1.40
Billion (USD 28 Mn). This project is scheduled for completion
by April, 2009.
The
company has also completed another contract of Rs. 270 Mn
(USD 5.5 Mn) from Reliance for its 28" Spur gas pipeline
in Gujarat.
Currently, Kalpataru has four ongoing projects – A
prestigious 48” dia high pressure gas pipeline project
of GAIL running through rocky terrain over 165 Kms at an
estimated contract value of Rs. 2.40 Billion (USD 48 Million)
scheduled to be completed in Oct.2009; A prestigious 48”/28”/30”
dia crude oil pipeline of Hindustan Petroleum-Mittal Energy
Limited running through marshlands of Gujarat and desert
lands of Rajasthan over 550 Kms. At an estimated contract
value of Rs.3.85 billion (USD 77 Million), scheduled for
completion in Sept., 2010; A 30” gas pipeline of Indian
Oil Corporation Limited from Dadri to Panipat over 130 Kms,
at an estimated contract value of Rs.520 million (USD 10
Million), scheduled for completion in June 2009; A 12”x
145 kms product pipeline from Chennai to Bangalore for IOCL
at an estimated contract value of Rs.287 million (USD 6
Million), scheduled for completion in Nov. 09.
The company has created a large pool of specialised pipeline
equipment consisting of Pipe layers, multiple Boring Machines,
Bending Machines, Dozers D8/D7/D6, Excavators, Welding Machines,
etc., which augmented by readily available equipment on
rent from local sources, can be deployed to carry out Pipeline
Construction work in 8-10 spreads on 5-6 concurrent projects.
The professional manpower pool with the company is today
ready to simultaneously implement several EPC cross country
pipeline projects with full competence and desired deliverability.
Cheers to our Pipeliners for having completed over 1,000
kms of challenging pipeline jobs in less than 4 years of
operations.
