Cairn Oil & Gas has announced that it will convert the Mangala pipeline to solar by 2025. The company which is a unit of mining giant Vedanta Ltd, said that it has initiated a project to install rooftop solar photovoltaic on the area of above ground installations (AGIs) in a phase-wise manner.
The Mangala pipeline is the world’s longest continuously heated and insulated pipeline that runs from oilfields of Rajasthan to refineries in Gujarat – traversing 705 km.
Now, this celebrated pipeline is making the solar switch with its decarbonisation commitment to reduce carbon footprint, Cairn is cutting dependence on more polluting sources of power and setting an important precedent in the industry.
The firm has already installed a total of 13 AGIs with 15-kilowatt solar rooftop capacity to reduce about 270 tonnes of carbon dioxide emission per year. Further, the plan is to install solar on 10 AGIs each year to complete the project by 2025 and achieve a total reduction of 770 tonnes of carbon emissions per annum.
Tags: Cairn Oil & Gas, Mangala Pipeline, Solar, Vedanta
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