We have established a comprehensive operations and maintenance procedure to monitor and maintain the health of our gas grid. This procedure includes 24 hour supervision of the entire pipeline through a SCADA system, monthly and quarterly field inspections of the pipeline, and yearly patrolling of the entire length of the pipeline to monitor soil erosion, possible encroachments and detection of pipeline leakage. We conduct routine pigging to clean the pipeline on a biannual basis and we are currently carrying out the process of “intelligent pigging” to monitor corrosion of the pipeline, which going forward we expect to carry out once every five years. 

SCADA system enables acquisition of data from remote locations across the pipeline route. All the critical parameters like pressure, flow, temperature are captured by remote terminal units (RTUs) and communicated to the control centers of the company through Telecommunication system. For Data transfer, the company has a dedicated OFC laid along the pipeline.

For the effective monitoring of operations, we have two Master Control Centers (“MCCs”) located at Sherkhi, Baroda and Mora, Surat. These MCCs are equipped with redundant servers to collect data from remote terminal units that are installed along the gas grid at intervals of approximately 15 kms. The SCADA system sends data to the MCCs from the gas grid and associated systems.

Operation & Maintenance Department is ISO 9001:2000 Certified.