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Mangalore: Foundation Laid for ISPRL Crude Oil Storage Project

  •   Thu, May 28 2009 07:22:33 AM

Mangalore: ‘Bhoomi Pooja’ Held for ISPRL Crude Oil Storage Project 
Pics by Dayananda Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (RS/CN) 

Mangalore, May 28: The ‘Bhoomi Pooja’ for a major crude oil storage project by Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL) was held in Kalavar Padav village near Bajpe on Wednesday May 27.  

ISPRL is a subsidiary of the Oil Industry Development Board of India. S Vijayanand, chief of the Mangalore unit of ISPRL, performed the ‘pooja’ with A G Pai, the chief operating officer of MSEZ, and S Shivaraman, chief of the construction company Engineers India Ltd. 






















After the ceremony, S Vijayanand informed the media that the government of India has planned to store five million metric tonnes of strategic crude oil reserves in underground rock caverns. 

He added that as part of this, places have been selected in Vishakapatnam, Udupi, and Mangalore for this purpose.  He said that the completion of these three projects India will help store reserves of petroleum for up to 14 days in case there is a disruption in the supply from the Middle East.  

“The project here will be completed in 2012. The entire storage plant will be made in rock caverns which have been proved immune to war, earthquake, sabotage, terrorist attacks, and natural calamities”, said Vijayanand.  

A G Pai assured that there would be no health hazards during its operation and added that in foreign countries, such plants are in residential areas.

  

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  • Gilroy, Mangalore

    Fri, May 29 2009

    As I said before, petrochemical industies will destroy the health of our children ( I have seen it in Houston) and the natural beauty of S. Kanara. Suffering localites, don''t even dream of getting good jobs at MRPL. Initially when MRPL was set-up, they did not consider the locals for employment just because of the reason that locals might go on strike.

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  • Krishna, India

    Fri, May 29 2009

    I understand only a small amount of land will finally be occupied by oil filling & unfilling facility. The storage will be below 70 meters below from ground-level inside rock cavern. The land above may be converted to a good garden or so. Earlier, MRPL/ONGC had suggested of constructing a cricket stadium over this land. But, no information later on this. As there is a plan for constructing a cricket stadium at Ganjimatt I feel a part of this land at Kalavar Padav could be used for constructing football stadium, hockey stadium, etc and rest of land could be used for garden once the ISPRL digging works are over. Anyhow, 33% of MSEZ is going to be reserved for greenery. Hope this rule will be strictly implemented. Jerome has a good suggestion.

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  • sathish, kudlà

    Fri, May 29 2009

    We all get worried seeing our beautiful home town being dug to a muddy zone losing our beautiful green city and we write comments on this . But will this be useful in any way ...no not at all .... but we are helpless. Lots of people get forced to leave their beautiful houses without proper compensation .. and at the end almost 95% of top comfortable jobs will go to outsiders. .We have read many a times about oil leakage from MRPL into the neighbouring places and people effected for drinking water from wells.. we dont know what type of disaster such projects bring to our beautiful land . TULUNAD and its kind hearted helpful people are just on the verge of destruction.

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  • haneef, pandeshwar mangalore

    Fri, May 29 2009

    excellent ... good job ,wish all the best.... carry on keep it up..

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  • Kiran, Mangalore\UAE

    Fri, May 29 2009

    Can’t the authorities find any barren land for storage? Why are they destroying Mangalore and surrounding areas by taking huge area for construction of refinery and now for storage. They are destroying our beautiful coastal area and also there is no benefit for locals. Some may feel that locals are benefitted, but this is only destruction.

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  • Richard Rodrigues, kinnigoly/Dubai

    Fri, May 29 2009

    One more bad news... we Mangalorians just wait and watch, one day our beautiful natural south canara will become a hell may be we will not be there to see ...but our next generation will pay the price .

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  • ganesha.d.s., daddangadi-manjeshwara

    Fri, May 29 2009

    good work keep it up

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  • Wilma Albuquerque, Kalavar/Kuwait

    Thu, May 28 2009

    you are exactly right Mr. Deepak(Bajpe / Muscat). They are not giving the jobs for locals, even if we have good qualification. Me and my brother applied many times in MRPL having distinction marks in engineering diploma. but they didn''t take us.

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  • akhilesh, udupi/bangalore

    Thu, May 28 2009

    well said...neetha rebello, moodubelle....whats the use of such polluting project....hope people understand the needs of nature than needs of selfish human beings....Dont give a chance to say" Once a upon a time there was a beautiful city called mangalore" Hope mangalore don't become dirty and dingy like Mumbai(once upon a time was a beautiful city)....

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  • neetha rebello, moodubelle

    Thu, May 28 2009

    mangalore is one of the sensesative zones idetified by the uno which is highly polluted.credit goes to bsf and mrpl.but unfortunately we Mangaloreans or Tulunadu guys never understand. MSEZ gonna be a big disaster to Mangalore bocoz hereafter the big corporate world is gonna rule Mangalore.Those who argue for development just go to the mrpl and observe the leeeekages and talk for development.

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  • deepak, Bajpe / Muscat

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Hope the jobs will be given to the locals of Mangalore. Hope no others are appointed by neglecting locals as MRPL did this. If I am not right people can visit MRPL and find many malbaries. I am a local engineer with 1st class. when i applied for MRPL 5 times for the add of which i was eligible. Even though i belonged from Bajpe, MRPL did not even call for interview. They do development in our village and forget us. This is not justice.

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  • Nanag, Oman/kinnigoly

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Good planning by the Govt. But take care of the infrastructure , specially roads, which are already sabotaged by the heavy duty vehicles of NMPT , MRPL and Mining industry .

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  • sagar, surathkal \ saudi

    Thu, May 28 2009

    well done keep it up

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  • thoufeeq, mulki/dubai

    Thu, May 28 2009

    superb work, keep it up

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  • Roshan, Mangalore

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Public and especially students should be allowed to visit this place with proper permission as they can learn a lot of industrial works.

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  • Jerome, Mangalore

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Huge quantity of blasted rock pieces are found.The same can be dumped along the sea shore to prevent sea erosion.I feel that it is also a social service and corporate social responsibility!

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  • Jerome, Mangalore

    Thu, May 28 2009

    As it is strategic storage and not being a profit making organisation,why it should come up inside SEZ limits!

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  • Rahimutallah Mohammad Khan, Udipi/Saudi Arabia

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Well done. Keep it up progress.

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  • Srinath K, Mangalore,US

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Appreciate for new projects which is started in south. Expecting still more projects. But it should not effect our enviroment.Good luck.

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  • Khader, Mangalore

    Thu, May 28 2009

    A lot of work is already done before inauguration,surprise to see this!

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  • Jerome, Mangalore

    Thu, May 28 2009

    If it is underground cavern work then what are those photos showing mammoth of above ground rock and soil work carried out even before laying foundation stone itself!

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  • Aqil C, Mangalore,US

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Good, expecting lot of projects needs to come in south.This is good move on morever it is useful for local people they will get job also.Appreciate keep going good luck.

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  • Sharmila M, Mangalore,US

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Excellent work keep it up.

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  • v raj, Udupi/Abudhabi

    Thu, May 28 2009

    All the best.

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  • Prashant Pujary, manglore - Mumbai

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Yes indeed Good progress but the work should complete on TIME.

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  • Gerald Dsouza, Chikmagalur

    Thu, May 28 2009

    Good progress , keep it up.

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