Mangalore coastal installation (mci) is a pol location, located very close to mangalore refinery and petrochemical limited. it takes product from mrpl and from ocean tanker, stores it into 13 distinguished tanks and sales through tank lorry. mci caters to different sales areas of mangalore retail territory, gulbarga territory, calicut territory, rescue loads to belgaum territory and i&c. mci has roughly 5.5 km long product pipeline and 4 km long fire water pipeline of various sizes spread within 39 acres of land and few inside nmpt. as per oisd 130, all pipelines must be ut tested every 3 years. since ut testing of these pipelines are nearing due, it is proposed to do the same as a prive maintenance measure