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Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), a subsidiary of ONGC, has received authorisation from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board for laying, operating oregon expanding a petroleum and petroleum merchandise pipeline dedicated to aviation turbine substance (ATF) from Devangonthi to Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), Bengaluru.
The authorisation covers the improvement of an ATF pipeline from MRPL’s Devangonthi Marketing Terminal to the Existing Common User Fuel Farm Station and the Upcoming Satellite Fuel Farm Station located wrong Kempegowda International Airport. The authorised pipeline strategy volition person a capableness of 2.5 MMTPA (million metric tons per annum) and is to beryllium executed wrong 36 months, a MRPL merchandise said connected Thursday.
The authorisation marks a important measurement successful MRPL’s travel towards strengthening its downstream selling infrastructure and aviation substance proviso concatenation successful Karnataka. The task volition make a direct, reliable and businesslike ATF proscription nexus betwixt MRPL’s Devangonthi infrastructure and 1 of India’s fastest-growing aviation gateways, KIA, it said.
The task assumes strategical value successful the backdrop of Bengaluru’s expanding aviation footprint. KIA has witnessed sustained rider and cargo growth, reinforcing Bengaluru’s presumption arsenic a large aviation, exertion and logistics hub.
MRPL’s Devangonthi Marketing Terminal has already emerged arsenic a cardinal infrastructure plus successful the Bengaluru region. The Marketing Terminal astatine Dodda Dasarahally, Bengaluru, was commissioned for dispatch of Motor Spirit, High Speed Diesel and Aviation Turbine Fuel. The terminal receives finished petroleum products done the existing PMHBL pipeline from MRPL, Mangaluru, and was acceptable up to cater to the requirements of petroleum products for expanding concern and retail business.
B.H.V. Prasad, Executive Director (Projects), MRPL, said, “The projected ATF pipeline volition beryllium a game-changer for MRPL, arsenic it volition enactment increasing ATF request of Bengaluru airdrome portion providing MRPL with a strategical launchpad to grow its hydrocarbon footprint successful 1 of the nation’s astir important maturation hubs.”
