States »EasPosted at: May 10 2021 8:50PM

IndianOil leverages its expertise & assets to help combat second wave

Kolkata, May 10 (UNI) As a responsible corporate citizen, IndianOil continues to go beyond
its business priorities to leverage its expertise and assets to help in the humanitarian efforts
to combat the second wave of the COVID 19 pandemic sweeping the nation.
In the face of a massive surge in demand for medical oxygen, IndianOil has diverted the
high-purity oxygen used in its Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) Unit to produce medical-grade
liquid oxygen at the Panipat Refinery & Petrochemical Complex. The throughput of the Unit
has also been scaled down to serve the more critical cause. Presently, it is supplying 270
Metric Tonnes of LMO per day to the Hospitals in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, K. John
Prasad, Chief General Manager, Corporate Communications Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
in a statement on Monday said.
IndianOil is also converting 14 LNG tankers of 17 MT each into medical grade oxygen
carriers to strengthen the medical oxygen logistics in the country. By mid-May, over 20
Road Tankers and 25 ISO Containers of about 820 MT combined capacity will be pressed
into action by IndianOil. Moreover, over the next six months, IndianOil will be manufacturing
ten Cryogenic road tankers at its Cryogenic Plant at Nasik.
To further streamline the medical oxygen supply scenario, IndianOil has launched a
single-window application – Sanjeevani Express. This application is equipped to enable
real-time monitoring of liquid oxygen supply logistics. The single window platform has been
created to help all stakeholders, including the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
(MoRTH), Oil companies and other central and state government agencies, to monitor
allocation, dispatch and receipt of Medical oxygen.
IndianOil has also extended medical insurance to its corona warriors for yet another year
to support fuel station attendants, LPG delivery persons, contract workers and truck drivers
fighting the Covid-19 pandemic on the ground.
Earlier, IndianOil contributed to India's COVID-19 vaccination programme by supplementing
the available Cold Chain Equipment (CCE) infrastructure in the four States of Jammu &
Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Manipur, for the storage and transportation of vaccine. Since
the outbreak of Covid-19, IndianOil has incurred a CSR expenditure of about Rs 300 crore to
help the country fight the deadly pandemic.
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