This blog has already covered India's gas trunk pipelines (running at roughly half capacity) and the small, fast-growing network of dedicated jet-fuel lines to airports (running close to full). The rest of the country's oil-pipeline network — the crude lines feeding refineries, the petrol-and-diesel lines feeding the market, and the LPG lines feeding cylinder-bottling plants — is bigger than either, and has never been mapped on this blog in one place. This piece does that: every major line this piece could identify, by company, route, length and capacity, with the same explicit confidence-tier discipline as the rest of this series.
Mapping India's Other Pipelines: Every Major Crude, Petrol-Diesel and LPG Line, By Company
The short version. Beyond the roughly 25,400-km gas trunk grid and the handful of dedicated jet-fuel lines this blog has already covered, India's refiners run three further, larger pipeline systems: crude-oil trunk lines carrying feedstock inland from ports and fields to refineries; refined-product (petrol, diesel, kerosene) lines carrying fuel out to the market, roughly 19,600 km of it on one industry estimate; and a smaller, faster-growing LPG network moving cooking gas from import terminals and refineries to bottling plants. Indian Oil alone reports over 20,000 km of pipeline and record throughput in FY2024-25; HPCL, BPCL, GAIL and Oil India each run substantial networks of their own. This piece maps what each company operates, by name, route, length and capacity, at the same confidence-tier discipline as the rest of this series.
Three pipeline systems, one refiner-led logic
Unlike the gas trunk grid, which this blog's companion piece describes as built substantially ahead of confirmed demand, India's crude, product and LPG pipelines are almost entirely commercial infrastructure: a refiner builds a line to move its own feedstock in and its own product out, sized against demand it already controls as the seller. That is the simplest reason this network runs fuller, on average, than the gas grid — and it is also why the network is fragmented by company rather than unified, with the same corridor sometimes served by two or three separate companies' own-use lines rather than one shared pipeline.
Crude oil trunk pipelines: feedstock to the refinery gate
| Route | Operator | Length | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salaya–Mathura | Indian Oil | 2,663 km | 25 MMTPA |
| Paradip–Haldia–Barauni | Indian Oil | 1,465 km | 20.4 MMTPA |
| Mundra–Bathinda | HMEL (HPCL–Mittal joint venture) | 1,017 km | Up to 9 MMTPA (Phase 1); an expansion to 18 MMTPA is reported approved |
| Mangala–Salaya (Bhogat) | Vedanta/Cairn (70%) & ONGC (30%) | 590 km | 175,000 barrels a day (original design) |
| Naharkatiya–Barauni corridor (incl. a re-engineered, now bi-directional Bongaigaon–Barauni section) | Oil India | 1,247 km trunk line; 600 km bi-directional section | 9.65 MMTPA |
| Vadinar–Bina | Bharat Petroleum | 937 km | Not found in sources located |
| Mumbai High–Uran–onward (Petronet MHB) | Petronet MHB (an ONGC–HPCL joint venture) | 363 km | 5.0 MMTPA |
No source this piece located gives an all-India crude-pipeline utilisation percentage comparable to the multi-product figure in §3 below, or to the gas-pipeline figures in this blog's companion piece. The clearest single data point on crude-pipeline pressure is indirect: PPAC data cited by trade press put India's refinery capacity at 258.1 MMTPA as of April 2025, with crude processed in the first half of FY2024-25 running at 102.9% of nameplate refining capacity — refineries running above their own design capacity implies the crude pipelines feeding them are moving at least that much, but this piece could not find a crude-pipeline-specific figure to confirm it directly.
Petroleum product pipelines: petrol, diesel and kerosene to market
The clearest company-level throughput numbers, as covered in more detail in this blog's companion piece on pipeline utilisation, come from filed annual reports: Indian Oil's FY2024-25 report describes product-pipeline throughput of 45.4 million tonnes, the highest the company has recorded; HPCL's FY2024-25 report describes "highest-ever pipeline throughput" of 26.90 million tonnes across a network of 17 pipelines spanning 5,134 km (3,957 km of it product pipeline, rated at 31.11 MMTPA); and Oil India's Numaligarh–Siliguri product line ran at a reported 91.46% utilisation in FY2024-25, prompting an approved capacity increase from 1.72 to 5.5 million tonnes a year.
A PNGRB-commissioned entity-level study of the product-pipeline network, reported in a 2026 zonal review, put a company-by-company shape on the network that this piece could not corroborate against a second source: Indian Oil running 24 own-use pipelines (9,547 km, 60.2 MMTPA) plus 5 common-carrier pipelines (2,046 km, 16.6 MMTPA); HPCL running 10 own-use pipelines (2,128 km, 36.3 MMTPA) plus 6 common-carrier pipelines (2,481 km, 27.6 MMTPA); and BPCL running 4 own-use pipelines (1,978 km, 14.3 MMTPA) plus 6 common-carrier pipelines (1,419 km, 17.2 MMTPA) — a reported total of 55 pipelines, 19,599 km and 172.2 MMTPA of capacity across the three companies, with the same study noting that roughly 30% of total pipeline length nationally runs as common carrier and the rest as company-specific own-use lines. The same study separately observed that roughly 70% of total product-pipeline capacity operates in this "self-use" mode, and that some individual lines run beyond their design capacity while others sit underused for want of a well-connected network between refining hubs and demand centres — the same finding this blog's companion piece reports from the identical source.
LPG pipelines: the smaller, faster-growing network
| Route | Operator | Length | Capacity / status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamnagar–Loni | GAIL | 1,427 km | Part of a combined 4.58 MMTPA GAIL LPG network (with Vizag–Secunderabad, below); an expansion from 3.25 to 6.5 MMTPA is reported approved |
| Vizag–Secunderabad | GAIL | 610 km | See combined figure above |
| Paradip–Haldia–Durgapur–Motihari | Indian Oil | Not found | 3.5 MMTPA |
| A dedicated LPG network (unspecified routes) | HPCL | 1,006 km | 4.1 MMTPA |
| Uran–Chakan–Shikrapur | HPCL | 169 km | 1.0 MMTPA |
| Mumbai–Uran | BPCL | 28 km | 0.8 MMTPA |
| Kandla–Gorakhpur (Indian Oil–HPCL–BPCL joint venture, "IHB") | IOCL (50%), HPCL (25%), BPCL (25%) | 2,805 km | Reported as both 3.75 MMTPA and 8.5 MMTPA in different sources, unresolved by this piece; under construction for several years with repeated delays, most recently targeted for completion around March 2026 |
GAIL's own FY2024-25 figures give the clearest sense of how full its LPG network runs: throughput of 4.478 million tonnes against a network capacity this piece calculates at 4.58 million tonnes — on its face, close to 98% utilised, which is consistent with the company's decision to approve the Jamnagar–Loni expansion. Nationally, PNGRB data cited by trade press puts the LPG pipeline network at roughly 8,296 km carrying only around 2.5 of India's roughly 32 million tonnes of annual LPG demand, with PNGRB reportedly consulting in late 2024 on nine further LPG pipelines totalling roughly 3,470 km — this piece could not confirm which specific routes those nine proposals cover.
What doesn't follow from any of this
None of this shows the crude, product and LPG networks are complete or that no further pipeline is needed: the Kandla–Gorakhpur line's repeated delays and the PNGRB consultation on nine more LPG pipelines both point the other way, and this piece's inability to find an all-India crude-pipeline utilisation figure is a gap in the public record, not evidence the crude network is comfortably sized. Nor should the roughly 30% common-carrier share in §3 be read as PNGRB's target for the network — it is a snapshot of where the network happens to sit today, reported by a single study this piece could not corroborate. And a company's own annual-report throughput figure being described as "highest-ever" or "record" in three consecutive years, as several of the figures above are, is a normal feature of a growing economy's fuel demand, not evidence any specific line is approaching a capacity constraint that needs new investment.
Sources and caveats
This piece's research was conducted entirely via web search; ppac.gov.in, pngrb.gov.in and pib.gov.in all returned a network-level block on every direct-fetch attempt from this piece's research environment, so nothing above is a verbatim read of a government table. Figures attributed to a company's own annual report (Indian Oil, HPCL, Oil India, GAIL) carry this piece's highest confidence tier, since companies have a compliance reason to state these accurately, though this piece read them via search-engine extracts rather than the filed report itself. The entity-level table in §3 (pipeline counts, lengths and capacities by company) comes from a single PNGRB-commissioned zonal study reported by one source and could not be corroborated against a second; it is reported because no more granular official breakdown could be found, not because this piece independently verified it. Several individual figures could not be found at all and are marked "not found" rather than estimated: Bharat Petroleum's Vadinar–Bina crude-pipeline capacity, the Paradip–Haldia–Durgapur–Motihari LPG line's length, and an all-India crude-pipeline utilisation percentage. The Kandla–Gorakhpur LPG pipeline's capacity is reported as both 3.75 and 8.5 million tonnes a year in different sources, which this piece could not reconcile; the lower figure may describe an initial phase and the higher an ultimate design capacity, but that reading is this piece's own guess, not a sourced fact. A reader who needs verified pipeline-network figures for a real purpose (investment, regulatory filing, or academic citation) should request PPAC's Ready Reckoner and PNGRB's own pipeline authorisation registers directly rather than rely on this piece.
About this article: Researched, written and edited by Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan, with AI research assistance; every figure is meant to trace to the primary source cited. See the Editorial Policy for how sourcing, AI use and corrections work.
