Anisul Islam Noor :
China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPPB) has started survey of a pipeline route along with the proposed location of Single-Point Mooring (SPM), which is to be built to carry petroleum from vessels far offshore to an onshore terminal, officials said.
The government awarded on December 8 last year the CPPB the project to build the country’s first SPM system through inking the final deal to implement it with double pipeline. The Chinese firm will act as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor.
The CPPB in its survey will detect a final pipeline route for the SPM system, a senior official at the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation said.
He, however, could not provide any timeline when the CPPB will start construction of the SPM system but said it would start soon.
The firm could change the draft pipeline route and the SPM route, if necessary, for smooth operation of the system, said the BPC official wishing not to be named.
On completion of the survey, the construction work on the pipeliner will start, he added.
The CPPB will install the SPM system with double pipeline on Sonadia Island in deep into the Bay of Bengal where large oil tankers will anchor.
It will have the capacity to unload 9.0 million tonnes of petroleum product a year.
The SPM will enable unloading of 120,000 tonnes of crude oil within 48 hours and 70,000 tonnes of diesel within 28 hours, according to the BPC.
Two 36-inch diameter and 16-km pipelines will carry both crude and gasoil separately from the SPM to storage facility at Matarbari of Moheshkhali island in the Bay.
Nine kilometres of the 36-inch diameter pipelines will be inside the Bay and the remaining seven kilometres (kms) onshore.
ILF Consulting Engineering, a BPC consultant, earlier prepared a draft pipeline route and pointed the spot of the SPM for installation.
China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPPB) has started survey of a pipeline route along with the proposed location of Single-Point Mooring (SPM), which is to be built to carry petroleum from vessels far offshore to an onshore terminal, officials said.
The government awarded on December 8 last year the CPPB the project to build the country’s first SPM system through inking the final deal to implement it with double pipeline. The Chinese firm will act as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor.
The CPPB in its survey will detect a final pipeline route for the SPM system, a senior official at the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation said.
He, however, could not provide any timeline when the CPPB will start construction of the SPM system but said it would start soon.
The firm could change the draft pipeline route and the SPM route, if necessary, for smooth operation of the system, said the BPC official wishing not to be named.
On completion of the survey, the construction work on the pipeliner will start, he added.
The CPPB will install the SPM system with double pipeline on Sonadia Island in deep into the Bay of Bengal where large oil tankers will anchor.
It will have the capacity to unload 9.0 million tonnes of petroleum product a year.
The SPM will enable unloading of 120,000 tonnes of crude oil within 48 hours and 70,000 tonnes of diesel within 28 hours, according to the BPC.
Two 36-inch diameter and 16-km pipelines will carry both crude and gasoil separately from the SPM to storage facility at Matarbari of Moheshkhali island in the Bay.
Nine kilometres of the 36-inch diameter pipelines will be inside the Bay and the remaining seven kilometres (kms) onshore.
ILF Consulting Engineering, a BPC consultant, earlier prepared a draft pipeline route and pointed the spot of the SPM for installation.
