Detailed Route Survey of Barmer-Palanpur Pipeline Project

Funding Agency: Government of India

Location: Rajasthan & Gujarat

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited proposes to lay Petroleum Product Pipeline for transportation of finished petroleum products from Barmer to Palanpur.

Actual Services provided by the Firm

• Detailed Route survey including Soil Investigation and Soil Resistivity Survey along the pipeline route. • Seismic survey for identifying fault zones and carrying out soil investigation • Geo-technical investigation at river crossings, hydrographic & bathometric study of rivers and collection of hydrological data • Soil investigations along the proposed pipeline route/ ROU, Crossings, SV/CP stations etc. • Cadastral survey along with the pipeline route. • Provide assistance to the Competent Authority in the state of Rajasthan for acquisition of ROU under Petroleum and Mineral Pipelines Act (P&MP), 1962. • Obtaining various approvals for crossing National Highways/ Expressway / Railways/ DFCC / Road / River / Canal/ Water bodies / forest areas / govt. bodies / quasi-government bodies / Other Pipelines and utility crossings for the proposed pipeline crossings and/or laying the pipeline. • Providing services for land acquisition for Palanpur Receiving stations, Intermediate Pigging & Pumping Station, Sectionalizing Valve Stations (SV)/ Cathodic Protection (CP) stations, Anode bed, Afforestation, Lands etc. • Organized public hearing meetings, objection / query hearing. Grievance and query management of people whose land to be acquired. • Topographic Survey of SV/ CP Stations, Main Dispatch & Receiving stations at Barmer and Palanpur. • Topography and soil investigation for marketing installations/stations and SV/CP stations. • GIS based online data management system. • Provided and installed high end servers firewalls, routers and Internet & network connectivity to support GIS SW and RDBMS software provided to HPCL.