IOC Jaipur Terminal Fire, India29th October 2009

11 fatalities,

Terminal Closed

Fire Continued for 11 days

Fire Scene at Jaipur Terminal

View of all 11 tanks

Control Room & Maint. Building

PLT Line up

DISCHARGE LINE

INLET LINE

TANK DYKEOMC

DRAIN VALVE

TANK 401A

FROM PIPELINE DIVISION

DIP: 11.86 M

NTS

TRANSFER PUMP -1

MS TANK 401A

Schematic Layout

Standard Operating Sequence Likely Sequence

1. Ensure MOV and HOV are closed2. Reverse the position of Hammer Blind Valve3. Open the HOV4.Open MOV (initially inching operation to

establish no leakage from Hammer Blind Valve body)

1. MOV opened first.2. Hammer Blind Valve opened3. Leakage started.

MOV

HAMMER BLIND VALVE

HOV

11.86 M

NTS

Source of MS Leak

Accident Investigation

Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Govt. of India constituted

an independent seven member committee headed by Sh. MB

Lal , Ex. Chairman, HPCL to enquire into the Incident.

MB Lal committee submitted their report on 29.01.2010 &

made following observation:

“The Jaipur incident was first of its kind in India & the third one

reported globally.”

Recommendations- Engineering Related

Only a closed system design should be adopted. All

Hammer Blind valves should be replaced with

Pressure Balancing type Plug Valves / Ball Valves.

The first body valve on the tank should be Remote

Operated Shut Off Valve (ROSOV) on the tank

nozzle inside the dyke with Remote Operation from

outside the dyke as well as from the control room.

ROSOV should be fail safe and fire safe.

Recommendations- Engineering Related

Adequate lighting should be provided in operating

areas. Minimum Lighting lux level should be as:Tank farm area/Roads – 20 Main operating area/pipe racks - 60Pump house/sheds/switches – 100

For floating roof tanks, roof drain to be of more

robust design to prevent oil coming out when roof

drain is open for water draining operation.

Piping design inside tank dyke area should ensure

easy accessibility for any operations inside dyke in

the tank farm.

Tank Dyke Valves should be provided with position

indicator (open or close) in control room and

necessary hardware and instrumentation should be

provided for this.

Recommendations- Engineering Related

Wherever Pipeline transfers take place, Mass Flow

Meter with Integrator should be provided on

delivery pipelines.

The Tank Farm Management system(TFMS) should

be upgraded and integrated with SAP and provision

for recording of all critical events in SAP as well as

TFMS (such as critical valves position, start/stop of

pumps, levels in tanks, alarms etc).

Recommendations- Engineering Related

POST M B LAL REPORT:

• HPCL was the 1st to lead as they declared Project Sankalp to upgrade its market terminals on the guidelines of M B Lal report.

• Companies like Oil India, IOCL, HPCL started giving out tenders to renovate and upgrade their existing tank farms to comply with safety measures as per M B Lal Report.

• ONGC in its Annual report 2010-11 declared that they would soon adopt safety measures as suggested by the M B Lal Report.

• But the latest survey suggests that only 58% of M B Lal report has been taken up till date.