The
company has entered into EPC Contracting of Cross
Country Gas & Oil Pipelines since 2004.
The
Oil & Gas sector has opened up for reforms in India.
As a result, the demand of energy per capita is rising steadily.
Simultaneously,
growing demand of natural gas and petroleum products worldover
has resulted in more and more pipelines being set up.
Like
elsewhere in the world, natural gas has emerged as the dominant
source of additional energy in India. There exists a huge
deficit of natural gas based on current production and demand
data. While additional gas quantities, almost equal to exisitng
gas production in the country, are going to be made available
through LNG and new gas finds, the infrastructure to transport
this gas to demand centers is required to be built afresh.
It is projected that an estimated 8,000 kms of big-inch
gas pipelines will be set up in next 5 years in India.
The pipeline network available in India today is highly
inadequate to transport the 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
4,000 kms of product and crude oil pipelines will be built
in next 5 years.
Kalpataru
has set up a full fledged organization to take forward our
Pipeline Division, led by a group of highly experienced
and competent persons, who are well-known 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 experience 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 etc in India and for PDO, OGC, ADNOC,
DEPA, ARAMCO & Petronas etc. internationally.
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 20 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 43 Mn) project from Panvel to Dabhol (Part
B) of 30" x 74 kms from GAIL which has been successfully
completed by July, 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 35 Mn). This project is scheduled for completion by
Oct, 2008.
The
company has almost completed another contract of Rs. 270
Mn (USD 6.5 Mn) from Reliance for its 28" Spur gas
pipeline.
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.
Cheers
to our Pipeliners for having completed over 1,000 kms of
challenging pipeline jobs in less than 3 years of operations.
