Transnet Pipelines
Transport in Durban

Transnet Pipelines, the custodian of the country’s strategic pipeline assets, formerly known as Petronet, is currently servicing two key industries by transporting petroleum and gas products over varying distances.

Transnet Pipelines is committed to offering its clients and potential clients a full suite of world-class, best-practice services for hydrocarbon pipelines. We invite you to interact with Transnet Pipelines and tap into an experienced and knowledgeable multidisciplinary team to your needs in the hydrocarbon pileline industry. Rail network unable to cope with fuel requirements of inland markets and refined products pipeline between Durban and Johannesburg was constructed. The Crude Oil pipeline was commissioned in 1969 to carry crude oil from Durban to the inland refinery. Transnet Pipelines prides itself on the fact that all transported product is accounted for. A metering data base system accumulates data and generates delivery dockets, delivery reports and proof reports which enables the organisation to pinpoint any possible defects and losses. Transnet Pipelines is responsible for the transport of liquid fuels: petrols, diesel, jet fuel, crude oil and gas (methane rich gas) The total product throughput is about 16bn litres per annum, and the gas throughput is 450 million cubic metres per annum. The transportation of fuel in a multi-products pipeline is made possible by careful planning and batching of the product to minimise contamination.