Pipelines

✅ Used to transport crude oil, petroleum products, Natural gas. 

✅Solids→ slurry form 

✅Initial Cost : High, later→ low 

🔸3 Important Networks

 

1. From Oil field in Upper Assam to Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) 

•Via Guwahati, Barauni, Allahabad 

Branches 

✅Barauni to Haldia, Via Rajband 

✅Rajband to Maurigram 

✅ Guwahati to siliguri

 

2. From Salaya in Gujarat to Jalandhar in Punjab 

•Viam Viramgam, Mathura, Delhi, Sonipat. 

•Branches to connect Koyali (near Vadodara, Gujarat), Chakshu & other places.

 

3. Gas Pipeline from Hazira in Gujarat to Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh 

  

✅ It has branches to 

•Kota in Rajasthan 

•Shahajahanpur, Babrales etc in Uttar Pradesh 

Waterways  

✅Cheapest 

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✍ Source - NCERT

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