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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.