Commtel Networks is a global engineering and technology company which provides high-performance digital communications, surveillance, security, safety, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for clients in the oil & gas, power, mining, transportation, and other critical national infrastructure sectors. The Mumbai-headquartered company, founded in 1998, has been at the forefront of engineering intelligence with expertise in executing turnkey solutions – design, engineering, multisystem integration, project management, testing, commissioning, and life cycle management. Commtel employs 300-odd people and has delivered over 500 projects across four continents, enabling the digital transformation of mission-critical infrastructure for its clients. The company, with offices in India, UAE and the US and customised solutions delivery centres in India and UAE, is also putting up a systems integration centre and a delivery centre in the US. Competing with names like ABB, Honeywell, Siemens, 3W Networks, RigNet, Speedcast and Tejas Networks, Commtel has deployed over 115,000km of dedicated telecommunications (optical fibre) networks, including systems for Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company or KIPIC (a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation) which is one of the largest greenfield refineries in the world. The 615,000-bpd mega KIPIC refinery project is being implemented in a phased manner (2019-24). Commtel, which generates around 60 per cent of its revenue from the overseas market, has delivered an Enterprise Integrated Communication Systems package for this large grassroots refinery. It has assumed turnkey responsibility, from design, engineering, procurement, system integration, packing and dispatch. Over the years, the company, a telecom, safety and security systems integrator, has emerged as the preferred vendor for organisations like Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum, Indian Oil Corporation, ONGC, Reliance, Shell, Petronet LNG Ltd, Saudi Aramco, Oman LNG and many other players in the oil and gas sector. In the power sector, Commtel has been catering to customers like BHEL, NTPC, Power Grid, Tata Power, NHPC, Adani, KEC, Kalpataru, state utilities and others, while in the transportation space Indian Railways, Delhi Metro, Bombardier and Ansaldo STS are its clients. Commtel works closely with large EPC players (who are also its clients) like Samsung Engineering, L&T, EIL, Bechtel, Petrofac and Yokogawa. In fact, the company has a client base of over 300 customers across these sectors and has deployed over 100,000 industrial IoT devices and 50,000 addressable nodes. It has delivered projects in multiple locations globally, including India, USA, Australia, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Oman, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Norway and Ethiopia. Commtel is currently engaged in providing a complete telecommunications and security systems package for operation and maintenance for the prestigious 2,757km Kandla-Gorakhpur LPG pipeline project, implemented by IHB Ltd, a joint venture of three oil & gas PSUs – Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum. Constructed at an investment of around Rs10,000 crore, stretching from Kandla port in Gujarat to the city of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh via Madhya Pradesh, it is expected to be the world’s longest LPG pipeline. The pipeline will facilitate transportation of LPG from the western coast to various demand centres. It will source LPG from LPG import terminals at Kandla, Dahej and Pipavav, and also from the two refineries at Koyali and Bina and will directly link to 22 LPG bottling plants in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.