Sleeve Welding Works on GAIL’S Operational LPG Pipeline SANMARG UPDATES SANMARG UPDATES SANMARG UPDATES SANMARG UPDATES JULY—SEPTEMBER 2014 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 • SANMARG has successfully com- pleted GAIL Be- lapur, GSPL, RGTIL Fabrication pro- ject, RGPPL Termi- nal piping works in LNG Terminal & Control and Instrumentation project at UPL-RGPPL sites. • SANMARG Teams have been deployed at Reliance Shahdol-Phulpur Project sites and Infrastructure facilities like Porta Cabins, Office and Accommodation have been inaugurated and are fully functional. • SANMARG has been awarded a project of Installing a captive Solar Plant at Bhogal, Delhi. • SANMARG has been awarded one year contract for Operation and Maintenance of TCIL’s Solar Plant. • SANMARG carried out its CSR activities on its 7th Foundation Day on 7th August 2014. QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER* Welding in Progress BY Mr. Ashish Ranjan (Project In-charge) SANMARG Team has successfully completed Sleeve Welding works on GAIL’s LPG pipeline at Abu Road. During Intelligent Pigging it was found that at several locations the carrier pipe thickness was reduced due to Internal corrosion and at few locations pipe thick- ness had reduced drastically. On the basis of this report, our Client requested SANMARG to carry out the physical verification job to verify the thickness of pipe using Ultrasonic meter. After the physical verification, it was decided that the full encirclement split sleeve over the affected area would have to be welded on to the 16” dia LPG pipeline. The concerned civic Authorities, Land Owners and Farmers were pre intimated about this maintenance job. It was also mandatory that the Welders passed the Welding qualification test as this pipeline was a high pressure pipeline; safety was paramount. This job was carried out in the rainy season, so con- stant tracking of weather was necessary to avoid any delays. For instance, on the day of longitudinal weld- ing, only one side could be completed because of bad weather. The welding was completed within four days and subsequently Leak test was carried out by nitrogen purging. After the leak test, coating of the pipe was done and checked with Holiday detector. On completion of all these activities, the trench was back filled and was restored to its original state. While the Sleeve job was being carried out, all safety parameters were considered and adhered to. Note from the Editors: We congratulate Mr. Ashish Ranjan, Mr. Saket Tripathi & Mr. OP Pandey on the successful completion of Sleeve Welding work which was done under the guidance of Mr. A Sengupta (VP Construction) and Mr. PK Naagori (Advisor Oil & Gas). Fitting of Sleeve on Pipeline *For Internal Circulation Only. Not to be extended to Clients/ Patrons or any other external party.
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Sleeve Welding Works on GAIL’S Operational LPG Pipeline
S A N M A R G U P D A T E SS A N M A R G U P D A T E SS A N M A R G U P D A T E SS A N M A R G U P D A T E S J U L Y — S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2
• SANMARG has
successfully com-
pleted GAIL Be-
lapur, GSPL, RGTIL
Fabrication pro-
ject, RGPPL Termi-
nal piping works in
LNG Terminal &
Control and
Instrumentation
project at
UPL-RGPPL sites.
• SANMARG Teams
have been
deployed at
Reliance
Shahdol-Phulpur
Project sites and
Infrastructure
facilities like Porta
Cabins, Office and
Accommodation
have been
inaugurated and
are fully
functional.
• SANMARG has
been awarded a
project of
Installing a captive
Solar Plant at
Bhogal, Delhi.
• SANMARG has
been awarded one
year contract for
Operation and
Maintenance of
TCIL’s Solar Plant.
• SANMARG carried
out its CSR
activities on its 7th
Foundation Day on
7th August 2014.
Q U A R T E R L Y N E W S L E T T E R *
Welding in Progress
BY Mr. Ashish Ranjan (Project In-charge)
SANMARG Team has successfully completed Sleeve
Welding works on GAIL’s LPG pipeline at Abu Road.
During Intelligent Pigging it was found that at several
locations the carrier pipe thickness was reduced due
to Internal corrosion and at few locations pipe thick-
ness had reduced drastically. On the basis of this
report, our Client requested SANMARG to carry out
the physical verification job to verify the thickness
of pipe using Ultrasonic meter.
After the physical verification, it was decided that
the full encirclement split sleeve over the affected
area would have to be welded on to the 16” dia LPG
pipeline.
The concerned civic Authorities, Land Owners and
Farmers were pre intimated about this maintenance
job. It was also mandatory that the Welders passed
the Welding qualification test as this pipeline was a
high pressure pipeline; safety was paramount.
This job was carried out in the rainy season, so con-
stant tracking of weather was necessary to avoid any
delays. For instance, on the day of longitudinal weld-
ing, only one side could be completed because of
bad weather.
The welding was completed within four days and
subsequently Leak test was carried out by nitrogen
purging. After the leak test, coating of the pipe was
done and checked with Holiday detector.
On completion of all these activities, the trench was
back filled and was restored to its original state.
While the Sleeve job was being carried out, all safety
parameters were considered and adhered to.
Note from the Editors:
We congratulate Mr. Ashish Ranjan, Mr.
Saket Tripathi & Mr. OP Pandey on the
successful completion of Sleeve Welding
work which was done under the guidance
of Mr. A Sengupta (VP Construction) and
Mr. PK Naagori (Advisor Oil & Gas).
Fitting of Sleeve on Pipeline
*For Internal Circulation Only.
Not to be extended to Clients/
Patrons or any other external
party.
P A G E 2 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2
BACKGROUND OF THE RELIANCE GAS PROJECT
On 8th May 2014, SANMARG Projects was awarded the Construction Supervision, Quality Control, Quality Assur-ance, HSE services for Compressor Station and Pipeline spreads of the 312 km Coal Bed Methane Shahdol to Phulpur Pipeline by Reliance Gas Transport Ltd. Our detailed scope of work includes:
• Construction Supervision, Monitoring and Manage-ment
• Quality Control and Quality Assurance
• Material Management at Construction Warehouses (Pipe Malls) thru RGPL’s SAP system
• Planning, Scheduling and Project Control
• Monitoring of resources of the construction con-tractors & expediting
• Review of construction procedures, methodologies submitted by contractors
• Health, Safety & Environment Management
SANMARG COMMAND & CONTROL CENTER
(COMPRESSOR STATION)
INAUGRATION OF SANMARG OFFICES AT RELIANCE SITES
(Construction Supervision, QA/QC, HSE services for Compressor Station & Pipeline Spreads)
PIPEMALL MANAGEMENT
PIPE MALL I
Compressor Station and Spread 1 Office was com-
missioned and inaugurated by Shri Jayachandran ,
Sr VP Reliance Gas & Project Head on 10 Septem-
ber 2014.
MEETING OF SANMARG & RELIANCE OFFICIALS
OVERALL SANMARG HEALTH SAFETY STATISTICS
P A G E 3
0
0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
0.05
0.06
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SR. NO. SAFETY PERFORMANCE JUNE JULY AUGUST
1 MAN HOURS WORKED(MILLION HOURS) 0.0596 0.049712 0.051
2 ACCIDENT FREE MAN HOURS (MILLION HOURS) 0.0596 0.049712 0.051
3 FIRST AID INJURIES 0 0 0
4 LOST TIME INJURIES 0 0 0
TRAININGS ORGANIZED
1. SCADA & PLC Training was conducted at Jodhpur office for Instrumentation Engineers by Mr. BL
Shakya (Sr Manager Operations) from 22nd to 23rd August 2014.
2. Training on proper usage of Pipeline Locator was organized at Jalore on 6th September and was
conducted by an external faculty Mr. Gautam of Savitri Telecom Services.
3. HSE Refresher course was conducted on 6th September 2014 at Head Office for all employees.
By Mr. Navneet Chauhan (HSE Engineer) with further inputs from Mr. Upender Singh (Manager
Operations, FAME)
4. Internal Training on Leadership was conducted by Mr. Pummy Chicker (Sr VP, Business Develop-
ment) for all Head-office Employees on 23rd August 2014.
OIL AND GAS BUSINESS INFORMATION
UPCOMING NEW PROJECTS
Pipelines
BPCL arm to build India’s first cross country
Pipeline: Numaligarh Refineries Limited, will
shortly begin to work on laying of a 170 km
Product P/L from Siliguri (West Bengal) to Par-
batipur (Bangladesh). They are also planning to
lay 1338 km, 6 MTPA P/L from Dhamra Port in
Odhisa to Numaligarh to feed the expanded
refinery with imported crude oil. (Business Stan-
dard, 29.08.14)
INR 10,000 CR Pipeline to take gas to Bihar, UP,
Jharkhand, West Bengal: GAIL announced the
construction of a 2050 km Natural Gas pipeline
between Jagdishpur in UP & Haldia in West
Bengal. They will establish a CGD network in
Patna & Gaya during the first phase of Haldia
Jagdishpur Energy Highway Gas P/L. (HT,
25.08.2014)
INR 200 Cr Pipeline to Nepal: India will build 81
km P/L from Motihari in Bihar to Amlekhgunj in
Nepal to supply petrol, diesel and ATF. (HT,
5.08.14)
India eyes $40 Billion Pipeline from Russia to
import Gas: Indian Govt. is preparing a Blueprint
for a $40 billion mega on land Gas P/L project.
GAIL India with a consortium of ONGC, OIL and
Indian Oil will be associated with this project.
(HT, 5.08.14)
Oil Pipelines proposed along Rail Tracks: IOCL
has submitted a proposal to the Indian Govt to
be able to lay Crude, Product and Gas P/L along
railway tracks to overcome the challenge of the
delay caused to P/L laying companies. (Business
Standard, 1.09.14)
Govt may chip in to fast track Rs 75,000
Cr ,15,000 KM National gas Grid network: Pipe-
lines identified for developing the gas grid in-
clude 1,100 km Kakinada-Haldia, 600km Kaki-
nada-Chennai, 670km Chennai-Tuticorin, 2,050
km Jagdishpur-Haldia, 800km Barauni-Guwahati,
2,050 km Surat –Paradip, 1,584 km Mallavaram-
Bhilwara, 1,670km Mehsana-Bathinda, 740km
Bhatinda-Srinagar, 1,348km Kochi Bengaluru-
Managluru & 2,500km of other spur lines. (HT,
4.08.14)
GAIL cancels contract for laying of 310 km Tamil
Nadu gas Pipeline (Kochi-Kottanad-Mangalore-
Bangalore Pipeline) worth 210 Cr . (Source
website: http://www.energyglobal.com)
UPCOMING NEW PROJECTS (Contd.)
Terminals
Adani Group to expand Dhamra’s Port’s Capacity:
Adani Group is planning to expand the recently
acquired Dhamra Port’s capacity to 100 MTPA (HT,
19.08.2014)
Piparav Port aims to spend Rs 600 Cr for capacity
expansion: Piparav port, operated by APM Termi-
nals, has planned to invest $100 million over the
next two years to ramp up its container handling
facility by over 50%. (Financial Express, 4.08.2014)
BORL to double capacity at Vadinar COT to aug-
ment Expansion Plans: BORL are all set to expand
by adding 8 additional storage tanks of 60,000 cu.
meter capacity & other ancillary facilities. (Business
Standard, 26.06.2014)
Govt to award INR 4,575 Cr Port projects under
PPP: The Indian Govt has identified projects for
augmenting capacity by 67 Million Tonne at 5 Ma-
jor Ports under PPP mode by March, entailing an
investment of INR 4575 Crore. The capacity of the
country’s 12 major ports- Kandla, Mumbai, JNPT,
Marmugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Chennai,
Ennore, VO Chidambarnar, Visakhapatnam, Paradip
& Kolkata stood at about 700 MT as of March 2014.
(Financial Express, 16.08.2014)
Refinery
Reliance Industries plans new projects worth $13
Billion: Sought Environment Ministry Approval for a
$13 Billion upgrade to its Jamnagar Refinery com-
plex. (Financial Express, 30.08.2014)
Exploration & Production
ONGC board approves INR 5219 Cr for Daman Gas
Project: ONGC board has approved a proposal to
enhance natural gas and condensate production
from Tapti Daman block in Arabian Sea. (Business
Standard, 29.08.2014)
India assessing if it can explore Hydrocarbons in 5
Vietnam blocks: To increase its relations with Viet-
nam, India is deciding whether to take up the op-
portunity of exploring Hydrocarbons in five new
blocks. (Financial Express, 26.08.2014)
CAIRN India gets Green nod to Increase Output
from Rajasthan Block: The Ministry of Environment
and Forests has given environment clearance to
Cairn India to raise crude oil production from its
Rajasthan Block by 50 % i.e. 300000 BPD.
(Economic Times, 22.08.2014)
AWARD OF CONTRACT
Essar Projects bags $54 Million EPC deal from Saudi
Aramco to upgrade the crude stabilization unit at
Aramco’s Abqaiq Plant in Shaybah, one of the larg-
est oil fields in the world. (Financial Express,
6.08.2014)
CNPC Wins Reliance Shahdol to Phulpur Gas Pipe-
line Contract in India for 200 kilometers of the 312
Sonangol (Angola) & are planning to have contracts
with Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela & Algeria’s NOC
Sonatrach. BPCL entered into a term contract with
Chevron for importing Nigerian crude & is inter-
ested to enter Libya. HPCL is also trying to sign up
with NNP (Nigeria). (Financial Express, 27.07.2014)
FARM IN/FARM OUTS
Shell advances Nigerian Oil Field sale to meet $15
Billion Plan: Royal Dutch Shell Plc, is seeking to sell
4 fields in Nigeria to meet $ 15 Billion asset sales
plan. (Business Standard, 28.08.2014)
OIL completes acquisition of stake in Russia block:
OIL has acquired 50% stake in an oil block in Russia
for $85Million from Ireland’s PetroNeft Resources.
(Financial Express, 5.07.2014)
ONGC Mittal gives up Oil Block in Nigeria: ONGC –
Mittal Energy, have farmed out from an oil block in
Nigeria after Nigerian Govt refused to relive it of $6
billion downstream investment commitment.
(Business Standard, 18.08.2014)
OVL in talks with PEMEX for Mexico Exploration:
The National oil company of Mexico for a tie up to
pick up equity in E&P assets in the Latin American
nation. (Financial Express, 2.09.2014)
HSE
Major Fire at GAIL Pipeline in Andhra Pradesh : Fire
broke out at the GAIL Tatipaka-Kondapalli P/L kill-
ing 22 people on June 27th
2014. The Petroleum
Ministry has blamed negligence as the cause for
the devastating fire. The P/L had corroded due to
condensate & water that came along with natural
gas. GAIL has asked EIL to inspect its 870 km pipe-
line network. (Business Standard, 28th June 2014)
Assam Gas High pressure Pipeline burst kills Four:
Accidental explosion at high pressure LPG Pipeline
left 4 persons dead and 6 injured along with dam-
age to property and environment in Sibsagar dis-
trict of Assam on early morning of 1 September,
2014. (Financial Express, 2.09.2014)
TRENDING
Government initiates steps to corporatize major
ports: The Indian Govt has appointed a Consultant
to come out with a draft report for amendments in
the Major Ports Trust Act, 1963 to Corporatize
India’s main ports so that they can compete with
their private sector counterparts. (HT, 1.09.2014)
India’s Energy Import Bill to fall in 5 Years: CRISIL,
an Independent research body, said India’s energy
import bill is likely to fall in the coming five years as
the price of LNG, Coal and crude oil will remain
under pressure. Further to this fuel import bill will
see a marginal increase of 1.6% annually to $175
billion by 2019 because prices of LNG, Coal and
Crude are forecasted to reduce. (Business Stan-
dard, 22.08.2014)
APPOINTMENTS
• Mr. NK Verma has been appointed MD of
ONGC Videsh. (Financial Express,
28.08.2014)
• Mr. Sidharta Sur takes over as ED, Chief
Corporate Planning of ONGC at New Delhi.
(HT, 3.09.2014)
• Mr. Desh Deepak Misra has taken over as
the Director (Human Resource) of ONGC.
(Indian Express, 5.08.2014)
• Mr. B Ashok has taken over as the Chair-
man of IOCL. (Financial Express,
30.07.2014)
• Mr. H Kumar has been appointed as the
New Managing Director for Mangalore
Refinery and Petrochemicals. (Financial
Express, 9.08.2014)
• Mr. Rajesh Padmanabhan has been ap-
pointed as President and Group Chief
Human Resource Officer for Vedanta
Group. (Financial Express, 23.08.2014)
• Mr. Sudhakar Mahapatra takes over as
Director (E&D) on Board of (OIL). (HT,
12.08.2014)
• Mr. V Nagarajan has taken over as Director
(Commercial) of Indraprastha Gas Ltd
(IGL). (HT, 10.09.2014)
• Mr. Ashwani Soni has assumed charge as
Director (Projects) of EIL. (HT, 5.09.2014)
P A G E 4 OIL AND GAS BUSINESS INFORMATION (Contd.)
P A G E 5
SANMARG 7th Foundation Day Celebrations CSR ACTIVITIES
SANMARG Projects celebrated its 7th Foundation Day on 7th August 2014. On this occasion
SANMARG adopted 10 Students from Rotary Institute for Special Children, Noida and 7
Students were individually adopted by some of our colleagues. A small function was organ-
ized at HO where we were privileged to have the presence of the Rotary Students.
Our Jodhpur Team visited the Navjeevan Sansthan where abandoned babies are given a
loving home. All meals were provided by the Team for a day and Mosquito Repellant
spray’s were also gifted as per the requirement of the Sansthan.
Adipur Team celebrated with Underprivileged kids and treated them to Lunch and provided
Stationary.
Team Sardarsahar provided new Lunch boxes at School for Underprivileged Students and
spent time with the Students.
Deesa Team distributed fruits and spent time with the special kids of Vidyamandir Trust
and our Team at Shahdol planted tree saplings on site.
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