• Pipelines provided a very convenient mode of transport to connect oil and natural gas fields, refineries and to the markets.
• In the past, these were used to transport water to cities and industries.
• Now solids can also be transported through a pipeline when converted into slurry.
• The initial cost of laying pipeline is high but subsequent running cost is minimum.
• It can be laid through difficult terrain as well as under water.
• It ensures steady supply of goods and reduces the transshipment losses and delays.
• Oil field in upper Assam to Kanpur, from Salaya in Gujarat to Jalandhar in Punjab and gas pipeline from the Hazira in Gujarat ot Jagadispur in Uttar Pradesh.