Dahej-Vijaipur Pipeline

GAIL, India

Completed in a record time of 270 days
Automatic welding and ultrasonic testing for the first time in India on an onshore pipeline
11.2 million safe man hours without lost time injury
Expert manpower mobilised from 11 countries
15 km of lowering in one spread in a day
Equipment mobilisation in 40 days, with 109 sidebooms from 9 countries
450 crossings of rivers, canals, roads and railway lines
150 km welded during heavy monsoon
Worked in difficult weather conditions
Difficult terrain varying from black cotton soil to very hard weathered rocks
The pipeline was laid simultaneously in six spreads with our own equipment
On peak days, an average of 6 km of welding was done. Out of the total length welded, 150 km was done in peak monsoon
Project awarded in June 2003, completed in February 2004

Punj Lloyd Ltd

Plate No. 2, Second Floor, Tower No. 2, NBCC Plaza, Sector V, Pushp Vihar, Saket, New Delhi-110017