Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, November 13, dedicated to the nation the Devangonthi Marketing Terminal of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) in Bengaluru, news agency IANS reported from the ceremony at which projects worth more than Rs 15,600 crore were inaugurated, dedicated or had foundation stones laid.

Source: IANS

Built at an investment of Rs 330 crore, the terminal spreads across 20 acres in eastern Bengaluru and can store 77,000 kilolitres of petroleum products, MRPL said in its dedication release carried by PR Newswire. It handles petrol, diesel and aviation turbine fuel (ATF).

Rs 330 croreTerminal investment
77,000 KLStorage capacity
363 kmPipeline from Mangaluru refinery

The terminal is connected to MRPL's Mangaluru refinery through the 363-km Petronet Mangalore-Hassan-Bangalore Pipeline, The Hindu BusinessLine reported. Its customers include Bengaluru airport, MRPL's own HiQ retail outlets, other oil marketing companies and industrial consumers, the company said.

MRPL completed the terminal's mechanical work in May 2024 and commissioned it in August that year, according to its annual report cited by Maritime Gateway; Friday's ceremony was the formal dedication of the operating facility. MRPL, a subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and a Category-1 Miniratna CPSE under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, runs a 15.0-million-tonne-per-year refinery in Mangaluru.

Why it matters for Bengaluru

A pipeline-fed terminal inside the consumption centre cuts the number of fuel tanker trucks on Karnataka's highways and gives the Bengaluru region a larger local buffer of petrol, diesel and jet fuel.

The dedication was one of the petroleum-infrastructure items in the Prime Minister's Karnataka programme, alongside India's largest underground LPG cavern in Mangaluru, the Bengaluru Metro Pink Line opening and the Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat flag-off. Sources: IANS, November 13; The Hindu BusinessLine, November 12; MRPL release via PR Newswire, November 13.