NEW DELHI : India’s first unloading Single Level Mooring (SPM) achieved the berthing of the 6,000th Oil tanker – MT Yio, a Liberian VLCC (Very Massive Crude Service) carrying Basrah Crude Oil from Iraq on Monday.
The SPM was commissioned by Indian Oil in 1978 at Vadinar in Dev Bhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat.
“Financial and social development depends on vitality and given our dependence on overseas crude, unloading crude provides from massive crude-carrying vessels deep into the ocean safely and reliably is important to maintain our refineries working. I have to laud the outstanding contribution of IOCians at Vadinar who work underneath essentially the most difficult circumstances to maintain the nation fuelled whereas setting new benchmarks of operational excellence. The three lakh kilo litres of crude oil that MT Yio is carrying is sufficient to fulfill about 40% of the each day gasoline requirement of our complete nation,” stated S M Vaidya, Chairman, IndianOil.
IndianOil at the moment operates two SPM terminals at Vadinar, within the south of the Gulf of Kutch, for unloading of crude oil introduced in tankers for transportation to shore tanks via pipelines, of which round 14 km is subsea.
Subsequently, the crude is transported via cross-country pipelines to IndianOil’s mega-refineries at Vadodara, Mathura and Panipat. With the unloading of this crude parcel, IndianOil Vadinar Terminal has crossed a cumulative receipt of 735 MMT.
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