Industrial Trip to Panipat Rerinery...

Saturday...11th of november....was a big day for me...as i went to an industrial trip to Panipat refinary, the 7th refinery of Indian Oil, designed for processing both indigeneous and imported crude.....it was HUGE !!!.....and engineering excellence....Pipelines all around...strict safety measure and boilers with loooong chimneys....it was a big place ...

So after the proper checking and initial safety guidelines...we went to see the refinery and all the units around in a bus........yeah... it was extended in a big area....so can't visit it without a bus or cab......all the facts n figures being told wer juss amazing....the refinery produces about 7 lakh tonnes of petrol annually, 27 lakh tonnes of diesel, 5 lakh tonnes of kerosene, 3 lakh tonnes of ATF and 2 lakh tonnes of coooking gas.......now u see...... how big it is...it recieves crude oil from vadinar in gujarat coast to panipat through a 1340 km long pipeline....
other products include Naptha, Mineral Turpentine oil,Bitumen, Sulphur etc....these products are transported to environment-friendly pipelines,Rail and Road..Refinery meets the demand of petroleum products of haryan,punjab,J&k, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Western UP and part of Rajastan n Delhi..

Units we visited
1. Atmospheric & Vaccum Distillation Unit (AVU)
2. Continuous Catalytic Reforming Unit (CCRU)
3. Hydrocracker Unit (HCU)
4. Hydrogen Generation Unit (HGU)
5. Resid Fluidised Catalytic Cracking unit (RFCCU)
6. Visbreaker Unit (VBU)......and 5-6 other units...

One astoninshing fact as told by our instructor.......... all the boilers and other big components, when brought in the refinery with the help of 650 tonne crane, the road has to be rebuilt again for further use....it completely destroys it........GOD !!!!


Due to strict security measures, mobiles n cameras wer also not allowed in....so cudn't get the real pics...but got some on internet..... have a look

more images......http://www.iocl.com/photogallery-iocl-new.asp
or... a single1.5 mb pic...http://rapidshare.com/files/3050509/refinery.jpg.html