Executive Summary of
RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Assessment Report
For
Proposed Construction of New petroleum storage
installation
BY
M/s. BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD.
VILLAGE: VALLUR & ATHIPATTU
TALUK: PONNERI
DIST: THIRUVALLUR
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTHUBERT ENVIRO CARE SYSTEMS (P) LTD
CHENNAI
JUNE- 2015
Executive Summary of
RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Assessment Report
For
Proposed Construction of New petroleum storage
installation
BY
M/s. BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD.
VILLAGE: VALLUR & ATHIPATTU
TALUK: PONNERI
DIST: THIRUVALLUR
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTHUBERT ENVIRO CARE SYSTEMS (P) LTD
CHENNAI
JUNE- 2015
Executive Summary of
RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Assessment Report
For
Proposed Construction of New petroleum storage
installation
BY
M/s. BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD.
VILLAGE: VALLUR & ATHIPATTU
TALUK: PONNERI
DIST: THIRUVALLUR
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTHUBERT ENVIRO CARE SYSTEMS (P) LTD
CHENNAI
JUNE- 2015
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. Introduction
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian state-controlled oil and gas
company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. BPCL has been ranked 225th in the
Fortune Global 500 rankings of the world's biggest corporations for the year 2012. BPCL,
with an equity base of Rs. 723.08 Crore, is a leading player in the Petroleum Sector in the
country. BPCL currently has Refineries at Mumbai and Kochi with a capacity of 12 Million
Metric Tonnes per Annum (MMTPA) and 9.5 MMTPA respectively for refining crude oil.
BPC's subsidiary at Numaligarh has a capacity of 3 MMTPA. Also, Bharat Oman Refineries
Ltd. (BORL) a joint venture of BPCL, a state-of-art, grass root refinery with a capacity of 6
MMTPA at Bina, Dist. Sagar, Madhya Pradesh is also a part of BPCL. This Refinery is on
stream and completely operational from 2011
1.1. The Project Details
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Ennore Installation will be one of the major
Oil installations in the country for feeding the important market of Chennai city ; Revenue
districts of Chennai Urban and Chennai Rural and some districts of Tamilnadu. Ennore
Installation will be feeding approximately 182 Retail outlets, 84 Industrial Customers and 1
Aviation Filling Stations.
Ennore Installation will get its inputs through ocean tanker from Mumbai and KR refinery.
The total Petroleum storage tankage capacity will be 1,17,035 KL.
Product will be dispatched to retail customers through tank Lorries.
S.No Particulars Details
1. Project Bharat Petroleum Corpn. Ltd/.
Ennore Installation
(construction of new petroleum
storage installation)
2. Geographical Location Village : Vallur & Athipattu
Taluk : Ponneri
Metro : North Chennai city
District: Thiruvallur
State: Tamil Nadu
3. Project Cost Rs. 369 crores
4. Power Requirement 600 KVA
DG Capacity Proposed: 1x500 & 1x250
KVA
5. Project land area 100 acres
6. No of Employees 100
7. Land use Special and Hazardous Industrial Use
Zone
8. CRZ Classification of area Zone IA, Zone IB, Zone III
9. Nearest Railway Station Chennai central-17.59 Km
Ennore -2.94 Km East
10. Nearest Airport Chennai Meenambakkam Airport - 30
km in south west direction
11. Nearest habitation Attipattu Pudu Nagar -2.94Km
12. Densely populated area Attipattu Pudu Nagar -2.94Km
13. Inland water bodies Ennore Creek – 1.45 Km
Lake in Jayalalitha Nagar – 3.1 Km
Kadapakkam Panchayath Lake- 6.96
Km
Periyathopu Lake-9.46 Km
14. Source of water supply CPCL Desalination Plant through
HPCL Existing Line
15. Highway SH 56, SH 104 road- Adjacent to site
16. Sea port Chennai port – 17.75 Km South East
Ennore Port – 3.17 Km North East
17. Forest/Wildlife Sanctuary Nil within 10Km radius
18. Industries around the project area North Chennai Thermal Power Plant,HPCL, NTPC – Tamilnadu EnergyCompany Limited, Indian AdditivesLimited
1.2. Scope and Methodology of the Study.
The EIA process structure is composed of the following stages:
1) Study of project information
2) Screening & Scoping
3) Environmental Pre-feasibility study & Application for Approval of TOR
4) Preparation of Detailed Project Management Plan/Report
5) Baseline Data Collection
6) Impact Identification, Prediction & Evaluation
7) Mitigation measures & Delineation of EMP
8) Risk assessment and Safety & Disaster Management Plan
9) Review & Finalization of EIA Report
10) Submission of EIA Report for implementation of Mitigation Measures & EMP as well
as necessary clearances from relevant Authority.
1.3. Type of Project
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, based storage units located inside the notified
industrial area/estate are listed at S.N. 6(b) under category ‘B’. However, applicability
of general condition due to project location within 10Km from Critically Polluted
Area is treated as category 'A’ and appraised by Expert Appraisal Committee. The
report is in accordance to the Terms of Reference (TORs) given for Environmental
Clearance application.
2. Project Description
2.1 Location
The proposed project, Bharat Petroleum is 80°20’E and 13°15’N located in Survey
No: 1556 B Vallur village and 354/1 Athipattu village, Ponneri Taluk, Thiruvallur
District, Tamil nadu. State highways number SH 56 passes by the site. The total area
of the project site is 100 acres. It is located in north of Chennai City. It is 25 kms
away from the Chennai city.
The following project falls in CRZ area. The following table shows the construction
falling in the CRZ area:
Table 1 Construction details in CRZ areas
S.No CRZ Area Constructions
1. CRZ – 1A No constructions comes under this area
2. CRZ – 1B No constructions comes under this area
3. CRZ III a) admin block (ground floor)
b) car and cycle shed
c) control room
d) inspection platform
e) PVCO crew shelter
f) Security cabin
2.2 Storage Terminal:
It is intended to store and dispatch of petroleum products and the receipt of these
products will be through Ocean tankers from Mumbai and KR refinery and products
will be dispatched to retail customers through tank lorries.
S.No Product Proposed
1 MS (Motor Spirit) 56620 KL
2 HSD (High Speed Diesel) 60115 KL
3 ETHANOL 200 KL
3 SLOP ( MIXED PRODUCTS) 100 KL
TOTAL 117035 KL
2.3 Justification of The Project
A Terminal in tune with company’s vision of safe and environment friendly
operations.
The shifting of terminal from Tondiarpet shall facilitate shifting of the 200 trucks
attached to this location from the heart of city to Ennore which is outside the city
limits. This shall reduce the traffic congestion caused by these vehicular movements
in the North Chennai area.
Increased storage capacity to meet the increasing market demand.
.
2.4 Land Requirements
Breakup details
Sl.No.
Particulars Area
(m2)
Area in Acres
1 Total plot area 4,04,700 100
2 Ground coverage area /Storage area
1,40,000 35.00
3 Hard paved area 41,188 10.17
2.5 Raw materials Storage Facilities:
Raw materials Storage facilities
TankNo.
TankDia(m)
TankHt( m)
Nature of Tank Product
TotalCapacity
(KL)
safeCapacity
(KL)
Classification
T1 40 16.80 A/G Fixed Roof BS 4 HSD 20000 19400 Class - B
T2 40 16.80 A/G Fixed Roof BS 3 HSD 20000 19400 Class - B
T3 40 16.80 A/G Fixed Roof BS 3 HSD 20000 19400 Class - B
T4 40 15.00A/G FloatingRoof
BS 4 MS 18840 16950 Class - A
T5 40 15.00A/G FloatingRoof
BS 4 MS 18840 16950 Class - A
T6 40 15.00A/G FloatingRoof
BS 3 MS 18840 16950 Class - A
T7 3.20 14.10 U/G Horizontal MS 100 100 Class – A
T8 3.20 14.10 U/G Horizontal HSD 100 100 Class – B
T9 3.20 14.10 U/G Horizontal SLOP 100 100 Class - A
T10 2.00 5.00 U/G Horizontal HSD 15 15 Class – B
T11 3.20 14.10 A/G Horizontal ETHANOL 100 100 Class – A
T12 3.20 14.10 A/G Horizontal ETHANOL 100 100 Class - A
Total 117035 109565
3. Description of The Environment
The baseline environmental study comprises of investigation of Air, Water, Soil and
Noise quality parameters and its results are discussed briefly.
3.1 Air and Meteorological Environment
To achieve this objective, five ambient air quality stations are proposed within a
radius of 10 km from the project site. The frequencies were computed on 00-24hrs
corresponding to study period as shown in subsequent sections. The hourly
meteorological data of wind speed, wind direction, temperature and solar radiation
were recorded at the project site. Parameters such as heavy metals, Gaseous pollutants
and particulate matters are analyzed and monitoring results are within the prescribed
limits.
3.2 Noise Environment
The prevailing ambient noise levels at study area were monitored at five locations
within 10km radius. The field observations during the study period indicate that the
ambient noise levels in the study area were well within the prescribed standards at all
the different noise zones prescribed by CPCB.
3.3 Water Environment
To assess the quality of water around the project site three sampling locations of
surface water and three locations for ground water were selected within 10km Radius
of the site for Physiochemical parameters, heavy metals, and biological parameters.
3.4 Soil Environment
Soil characteristics such as color, porosity, soil texture, aluminium, chromium,
copper, sodium, chlorides etc. were analyzed at five sampling locations within 10km
radius of the site.
3.5 Ecology
There is no Wild life sanctuaries/ National / Reserved forest within 10 Km radius of
the site and there is no rare/ endangered species in the project study area.
3.6 Socio-Economic Environment
Proposed change of product mix is to be taken up in existing site with some
modifications and there will be no rehabilitation and resettlement.
4. Anticipated Environmental Impacts & Mitigation Measures
The methodology adopted for carrying out the Environmental Impact Assessment for
the proposed Project has been based on the Guidelines issued by Ministry of
Environment & Forests (MoEF). An effective environmental impact assessment calls
for establishing sufficient background data on various environmental components
through reconnaissance survey, sampling and available literature sources etc. The
proposed project will have impacts on the environment in two distinct phases. During
the construction phase which may be regarded as temporary or short-term; the other
during the operation stage, which will have long term effects.
A careful examination of each of these activities with respect to the environmental
components establishes a “Cause and Effect” relationship between the activity and
environmental parameters.
The potential Environmental Impacts on Air, water, Soil, Hydrology, Flora and Fauna
are all studied carefully and the necessary mitigation measures were all proposed.
5. Environmental Management Plan
The Environmental Management Plan during construction and operation phase is
discussed to ensure the environmental protection around the project area.
EMP has been prepared addressing the issues like:
Mitigatory measures for abatement of the undesirable impacts caused during
the construction and operation stage.
Details of management plans (Greenbelt development plan, Solid waste
management plan etc.).
Institutional set up identified & recommended for implementation of the EMP.
Post project environmental monitoring programme to be undertaken after
commissioning of the project.
Expenditures for environmental protection measures.
Moreover, the recommendations for Disaster Management Plan, Occupational Health
and Safety Plan, fire and explosion controls, greenbelt development and rain water
harvesting system and energy conservation schemes should be considered and
implemented in the project.
6. Risk Assessment
Predicting and evaluating risk to take appropriate preventive measures during the
operation phase.
• The methodology and approach for the studies are based on Indian Standards IS
15656:2006 HAZARD IDENTIFICATION & RISK ANALYSIS – CODE OF
PRACTICE.
• Risk analysis tools used in the assessment include PHA – Process Hazard Analysis,
consequence and frequency analyses.
• The onsite storage units consist of underground & above ground tanks. The total
petroleum storage tankage capacity will be 1,17,035 KL.
• As the activities involve flammable materials and are classified as hazardous, risk
analysis studies were conducted to assess the degree of risk.
• The Study has assessed the site for potential to initiate and propagate an unintentional
event or sequence of events that can lead to an incident and / or an emergency
situation within the installation.
• The risk zones will be mainly within the plant site and will not have any effect on the
persons outside the plant.
• The maximum individual risk at manned location in the installation was assessed and
found to range between 10 -10/Yr to 10-11/Yr.
Also, additional safety measures are recommended for the same.
Emergency management plan, policies and principles for safety aspects of the
employees is given which are to be strictly followed by management and employees.
7. Applicability of Environmental Clearance for Proposed Facility:
Due to the proposed Oil storage Terminal the impact on environment will be
minimum and can be further reduced by implementing various mitigating measures
and regular monitoring programs.
The proposed Oil Storage Terminal will serve as a southern hub and have beneficial
impacts in terms of supply of petroleum products in the region with incidental
benefits like employment opportunities both in the construction stage and operation
stage. Also the modernized installation will facilitate greater level of operating safety.
BPCL has a successful track record of implementing various EMP’s & DMP’s in their
existing recently constructed installations.
Due to the proposed project the socio economic activities will be developed in and
around the project area.
As zero discharge Effluent Treatment Plant is envisaged and the impact on water
environment will be minimum. Various conservatory measures are proposed to be
taken for minimizing water consumption.
Proper disposal method such as Bio-remediation have been planned to carried out for
disposal of solid waste generated from the periodic cleaning of the tanks (once in 5
years) Hence the project is recommended by the consultant.