CUS NTF NO. 55/1997 DATE 13/06/1997

Goods for setting up to Crude Petroleum Refinery - Duty Exemption Withdrawn - 10% Duty Levied - List of Goods Revised
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that is necessary in the public nterest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 11/97-Customs dated the 1st March, 1997 namely :-
In the said Notification:-

(1) in the table, against S.No. 144A, in column (5), for the entry, the entry ""10%"" shall be subsisted;

(2) in the annexure, for List 8A, the following List shall be substituted, namely :-
"List - 8A (See S.No. 144A of the Table)
1. All types of Refinery Process Units Including distillation (CDU, VDU,condensate Fractionator); thermal cracking (Delayed Coker, Visbreaker, Flexlcoker); catalytic cracking (FCC, Hydrocracker); tube processing (deasphalting, dewaxing,Solvent Extraction); hydrodesulphurisation / hydrotreating (Naphtha, Diesel, VGO, ARDS, LC Flning, H Oil); alkylation; isomerisation; catalyic reforming; treating (Merox, Amine); recovery (Propylene, Ethylene, Butane); synthesis (MTBE TAME); gas concentration plant; bitumen blowing; sour water stripping; extraction (Pentane,Hexane, BTX)

2. All types of Hydrogen Generation Recovery and Purification Plants; Sulphur Recovery Plants Including Tall Gas Treatment Units; with associated components and equipments, including reactors (like shift, claus, hydrotreater, CBA, desulphurizer) furnaces, steam reformers, waste heat oilers, condensers, Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) systems, Incinerators, vessels, boilers, pumps, compressors, drivers; along with associated Instrumentation & control systems, and auxiliaries (skidded or otherwise).

3. All types of Utility Systems, Including Nitrogen Systems comprising of generation, storage and vaporization plant; Flare systems comprising of flare tips, stacks, seal drums, knockout drums and pumps; Refrigeration Systems comprising of compressors, refrigerant storage and heat exchangers; Emergency Power Systems comprising of generators, UPS and batteries; with component equipments and all systems auxiliaries, instrumentation & control systems.

4. All types of process Subsystems, including Continuous Catalyst Regeneration Systems for Reformer; Recovery Plus Systems for Reformer; Power recovery Train Systems for FCC; Feed Nozzles for FCC, Vapour Recovery systems; Cryogenic Systems for LPG, either supplied separately or as a whole, with component equipments, drivers, instrumentation & control systems, and auxiliaries.

5. All types of water Handling & Treatment Systems, including sea water Intake systems comprising of sea water band screens; desilting systems for still basin; Sea water Filtration / Chlorination Systems; Desalination plants; Cooling Water Towers; Demineralization plant; Condensate Polishing Systems; Deaerators and Potable water systems; and all component equipments, vessels, pumps, vapourisers, condensers, fitters, eductors, heat exchangers, drivers, screens, framing structures, gates, instrumentation & control systems, activated carbons, lon exchange resins, traps, additive injection systems and auxiliaries, (skidded or otherwise).

6. All types of Effluent Solids / Liquids / Gaseous Processing, Handling, Control, Abatement and Disposal Systems, including plate interceptors, dissolved air floatation devices, skimmers, hydrocyclones, clarifiers, chemical dosing systems, acid treatment and biological treatment systems; Spent Caustic Neutralisation Systems and Sewage Filtration / Treatment Systems; with component equipment, instrumentation & control systems.

7. All types of Air Handling Systems and Equipments, including Plant / Instrument air compressors, FD / ID fans, blowers, dehumidifiers, pneumatic systems, mixers, dryers, intake filters, vents, silencers, cyclones, stack manifolds, ducts; with drivers, auxiliary seal / lube / control oil systems, instrumentation & control systems.

8. All types of Fired Heaters and Boilers, with radiant coils and sections, transfer line assemblies, convection coils and sections, cross over / jump over pipes, fittings, tube sheets, tube supports, refractory materials, assemblies, burner tiles, waste heat boilers (WHB), steam generators, economizers, air / fuel preheat systems, FD / ID fans, fuel gas / oil skids; and including LPG vaporizers, steam superheaters, heat recovery steam generators, electric heaters, FCC flue gas coolers, steam reformers, CO boilers, circulating fluidized bed boiler, auxiliary boilers process interheaters, thermal reactors, thermal incinerators, coke feeders, limestone feeders, EXP / baghouse filters; along with associated instrumentation & control systems, including burner lighting, flame detection and burner management systems.

9. All types of Compressors, including axial, centrifugal, diaphragm, reciprocating, rotary, screw and sliding vane type compressors; for gas, air, hydrocarbon and all special services including FCC Power Recovery Trains (PRT); LPG vapour return blowers; with drivers of motor or steam turbine or expansion turbine or engine or gas turbine or hydraulic turbine types; speed governor systems, seal / lube / control oil systems (skidded or otherwise), gear assembly, bearings, bearing gears, clutch, couplings, intercollers, after collers, suction filters; instrumentation & control system including vibration monitoring, anti surge control, inlet guide vane control, sequencer control, control panel and machine condition monitoring systems.

10. All types of Heat Exchangers, including shell and tube, double pipe, kettle; plate, welded plate, high pressure (breech lock), Armstrong and brazed types; with plain or fin or High Flux or U tubes for cooling, intercooling, trim cooling, chilling, condensing, crystallizing, heating, vaporizing or reboiling services; with tubes, tube sheets, head assemblies, shells, flanges bolts & nuts, gaskets, baffles, tie rods; instrumentation and control systems.

11. All types of Air Cooled Exchangers, for cooling, intercooling, trim cooling chilling and condensing services; with plain / finned tubes, of carbon steel, admiralty brass, alloy steel, stainless steel, monel or titanium or other materials; with fans, fan drives, structural steel support frameworks, instrumentation & control systems, anti vibration systems.

12. All types of Agitators and Mixes, including static, jet, dilution types; montor drivers, aeration systems: with instrumentation & control systems.

13. All types of Filters, Screens & Strainers; including backwash, bucket, carbon, cartridge, duplex, pressure mechanical, rotary, drum, sand, sock / bag, vacuum types, and special FCC net bottoms catalyst filters: screens, strainers, demisters and sea water clarifiers; with instrumentation & control systems.

14. All types of Vacuum Producing Equipments, including ejectors, educators, venturies, with instrumentation & control systems.

15. All types Materials Separation Systems, including cyclones, centrifuges, coalescers, dust collectors, elestrostatic precipitators, oil water separators, flocculators: and specialized systems of Crude oil Desalters, Reactor Cyclones and Regenerator Cyclones for FCC. Third Stage Separators and Fourth Stage Cyclone Separators for FFF; with vessel internals, grids, distributors, supports, instrumentation & control systems.

16. All types of Materials Tranporting Equipments, including loading & unloading arms and racks; gentries. dispatch tanks, loading / transfer pumps, hydraulic systems, weigh bridges, diesel shunters, feed or injection or spray nozzles, skimmers, soot blowers; with instrumentation & control systems, including load cells and metering stations.

17. All types of Electrical Equipments including switch yard equipments transmitters, relays: solar power systems. including solar panels, batteries and charger; phase shift monitors, motor or steam turbine generators protection relays for generators, auxiliary seal / lube / control oil systems; actuators, annuclators, lighting masts, lighting fittings, pannels; batteries and battery chargers; bus ducts; all types of cables including power instrument / compensating / fibre optic / coaxial / control cables; cable joints, capacitors. distributor boards. fittings, substations, grounding / neutral resistors; heat tracing systems - including insulation microprocessor based process controllers; local control stations, motor control centres, power control centres, HT / LT motors, shock eliminators, HT / LT switchgears, transducers, HT / LT transformers, UPS and variable speed drives, over current protection devices, instrumentation & control systems including load distribution and management systems, and auxiliaries, (skidded or otherwise).

18. All types of Materials handling Equipments including belt or pneumatic conveyors, ducts, hoists, bucket or jib cranes, (with or without access gangways), pipes and hoses, funnels, hoppers, disengaging lock hopper; catalyst addition posts, valves and sampler device; bagging, weighing and bag stitching systems; weigh bridges; buoy systems for crude oil receipt; pipeline end manifolds with valves, leanders, mooring alds, laser docking systems, product systems, product tanker loading facilities; with associated equipments, instrumentation and control systems, and auxiliaries.

19. All types of coke handling and storage equipments, including coke crushers, coke cutting systems, coke drum unheading devices, coke drum switching systems, coke conveyors, stackers and reclaimers, silos / hoppers, dust abatement systems, belt weighers; Sulfur Handling and Storage Equipments and Sulphur granulation or Flaking or Prilling Systems with associated equipments, instrumentation & control systems and auxiliaries.

20. All types of Product Filling Systems, including LPG bottles filling machines and bitumen drum filling machines; and associated equipments, instrumentation & control systems and auxiliaries.

21. All types of Injection and Dosing Packages, for injection or metering or dosing of chemicals, additives, inhibitors, odourlsers, oxygen scavengers, blocides, chlorine, polymers, caustic, acids, emulsifiers, antifoarma or antifoulants, with their components equipments, like drums, tanks, pumps, Instrumentation & control systems, auxiliaries (skidded or otherwise).

22. All types of Pumps, including API or non API; centrifugal, diaphragm in-line, jockey, vertical, booster, barrel, gear, Sundyne, screw, ram reciprocating or submersible types: single stage or multistage types; for petroleum crude or intermediate products or petroleum products and by products; water including sea water and boiler feed water; chemicals, slopes or sludge services; liquid booster for LPG (cryogenic); with motor or steam turbine or hydraulic turbine or diesel engine drivers; and instrumentation and control systems, auxiliaries, including seals, gearboxes, seal flushes, water cooling harnesses and tube oil consoles.

23. All types of Tanks and Storages, including plate materials, flanges, fasteners, nozzles, fittings and other components for assembly / construction / erection at site; and instrumentation, including relief, breather; and rim vent valves; nitrogen blanketing systems, roof drain pipings, rim seals, flame arrestors and automatic tank gauging systems; for oil, hydrocarbon (petroleum crude, products, by products, intermediate and blend components), water, chemicals, slops, sludge storage in either cone, fixed, floating, dome or internal floating roof configurations; solids storage in silos, bins or hoppers and LPG / propylene / ethylene / propane / butane storage in spheres, bullets or cryogenic tanks; and instrumentation & control systems.

24. All types of Columns, either supplied separately or together, comprising of grids, screens, distributors, nozzles and their supports / fasteners and accessories; for services like absorption, desorption, stripping, fractionation, distillation, splitting, stabilization, extraction, washing or scrubbing services; and column internals comprising of trays either bubble, jet multi downcorner (MD), sieve or vale trays; or either random or structured type packings; and their appurtenances, instrumentation and auxiliaries.

25. All types of Vessels and Drums, either supplied separately or together; comprising of shells, heads, catalysis, support materials, grids, screens, demisters, coalescers, distributors, packings and supports / fasteners and accessories; for carrying out cracking (FCC reactor and Spent Catalyst Stripper), coking (Coke Drums); visbreaking, hydrotreating, hydrodesulphurization, hydrocracking, catalytic reforming (Platformer) shift, sulphur (Claus) adsorption (CBI, PSA), oxidizing, treating (Merox) regenerating (FCC Regenerator / Combustor), desulphurising reactions; spray and mixing nozzles and their appurtenances, instrumentation and auxiliaries.

27. All types of instrumentations, including various types of level / pressure / density / temperature / flow instruments, detectors, level / pressure / draft / temperature gauges, capacitance / level / limit, proximity switches, transmitters, annuanclators, controllers, converters, transducers, temperature sensor assemblies, load cell, office assemblies, rotameters, pilot tubes, venturies, meter runs, control / metering panels, pneumatic / motorised / hydraulic / piston actuators, recorders, solenoid operated valves, transmitters, thermocouples, temperature elements, sight glasses, amplifiers, annubars, barriers / isolators, all types of flow meters, custody transfer meters, meter provers, density meters, electromechanical / magnetic / nuclear / radar / ultrasonic level indicators, weighting and bagging systems and test equipments for testing and calibration of above instruments.

28. All types of Transmitters and Monitors, including electronic transmitters for measurement of level, pressure, flow speed, temperature and weight; and monitoring system for amblent air, fugitive emissions, pipelines, speed, stack, emission and vibration.

29. All types of control Equipments, including ball / butterfly / gate / globe / needle / plug / bellow sealed type control valves; shutdown valves; shutdown valves; self actuating, solenoid, on / off fast acting quarter turn, pressure regulating, breather and pressure / vacuum relief valves; pilot operated safety valves, and valves for specialised services, such as catalyst addition systems and lock hopper control systems.

30. All types of control Hardware and Software Systems, including Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Emergency Shutdown System (ESD), Programmable Logic Controllers / PLC). Security & Access Systems, terminal Automation Systems, advanced Process control (APC) Systems with real Time Optimizer (RTO), Supervisory Control and data Acquisition (SAADA) Systems, and Refinery information Management System (RIMS); with operator panels, computers, data loggers, interfaces, relay cabinets, engineering controls, large display screens, microwave transmission and receiver equipments, logic, multipoint recorder / multiplexers, and their hardware & software.

31. All types of Fire & Gas detection Systems, consisting of LEL / Fire / Smoke / UV / gas / IR / toxic detectors; panels, cables, weather protection housing, junction boxes, detector cards, cabinets, calibration equipments, beacons and lights, and their hardware, & software.

32. All types of Pipes, Tubes and Houses, including cladded, coated, lined; made of carbon steel, low temperature carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless steel, GRP, copper, aluminium HDPE, PP, fibre glass, monel, incolloy titanium or any other materials; and other in seamless or welded construction; for all applications, field joint coating materials; with instrumentation and control systems like pipeline surge relief systems; auxiliaries painting and insulation.

33. All types of Pipe Fittings, including elbows, connectors, tees, pipe fabrication accessories, spargers, nozzles plugs, packing glands, rings, flanges, gaskets, supports, pads, manifolds, siphons, shock absorbers, struts, fasteners; mitre / long radius / short radius bends; sockolets, weldolets, spray nozzles, graylock fittings; swagelock / compression fittings; insulating kits, special steam traps, liquid float traps, bellows, flexible houses, couplings, vent silencers; and speciality items like Teflon sliders, standpipe expansion joints, spring supports / hangers, scraper tees; pipeline and manifolds with valves; cleaning / scraping / monitoring plgs; plg launcher, plg receiver and pig detection system; cathodic protection system with sacrificial anodes and CP monitoring system; with instrumentation and auxiliaries.

34. All types of Valves, including ball, butterfly, check, diaphragm, gate, double disc or knife gate, globe, bellow sealed globe, jacketed, plug, through conduit type valves; with manual / gear / motor / hydraulic operations; for oil, water, steam, hydrocarbon, chemical, cryogenic, subsea, nitrogen blanketing and thermic fluid services; and specialised valves, like FCC butterfly valves, Coker switch valves, standpipe slide valves, flue gas divertor valves, pressure reducing stagion systems, pipeline and manifolds and riser tie in manifolds.

35. All types of Gaskets and Fasteners, including anchor / foundation / structural bolts; flanges, studs, nuts, washers; and metallic / soft / spiral wound gaskets and O-rings.

36. All types of Structural Steels, materials and Plates including carbon steel / LT carbon steel / alloy steel / stainless steel plates; bars. rolled sections, HYSD bars, dampers prefabricated tresties, pipe bridges with pre-installed pipes, loading platforms, steel A frames, blast proof doors; steel tubulars, seamless & welded; special steel piles; dolphins; low, medium & high strength steel, fasteners; and special application refractory / copality / sulphide resistant / quick setting cements.

37. All types of ferrous or non - ferrous prefabricated / semi fabricated, Plant Structures, including pipe racks, supporting frames, testies, pipe bridges with pipes pre - installed and pre insulated.

38. All types of Analyzers, either online or off line; for measurement of H.S. Oxygen, NOX, SOX, CO, CO, hydrocarbon, dew point density, conductivity, pH, combustible gases, oil in water, vapour pressure, silica, sodium, distillation, flash point, moisture, viscosity and smoke point; and analyzer sampling systems / cubicles; analyzer houses with sample conditioning systems, sample probes / sensors, tubings, HVAC systems, calibration gases cylinders and Dragger tubes.

39. All types of Laboratory Equipments, including sampling, quality control and analytical equipments for testing and measurement of petroleum crude / products / by products quality parameters; and including sample collection equipments, gas / ion chromatograph, CFR engines for octane & centane number, pulse NMR, spectrophotometers of different types, distillation equipment systems, analyzer management systems and laboratory information management systems; with instrumentation, auxiliaries, hardware & software.

40. All types of Safety & Fire Fighting Equipments, for safety of personnel and plant and machinery; including fire suits, fire monitors, Q.B. bulbs, spray nozzles, ambient air monitors, heat and flame resistant clothings, portable extinguishers, deluge skid systems, explosimeters, rupture discs, fire fighting systems, fire tenders; foam systems with foam storage & monitor, transport and booms; snorkels, sprinkler systems, breathing air apparatus; fire proofing materials for passive fire protection of steel structures and oil spill protection booms with auxiliaries.

41. All types of Communication Equipments, including cables, bone mikes, frequency synthesizers, meteorological instruments; microwave transmission & receiver equipments; public address systems, intrinsically safe walkie-talkie, UHF / VHF multi channel communication systems; radio telemetry systems, with remote telemetry units, portable units and PC based master telemetry units and antenna systems. 42. Unitial charge of all types oc catalysis, desiccants, zeolltos, activated carbons, clay, molecular slaves, used in refining and processing of petroleum crude, petroleum products & by - products.

43. Software Support Systems, including training simulation systems, electronic documentation systems, CAD stations, data tapes; operation / maintenance / safety manuals; scanners, plotters, printers, softwares including licences; specifications, drawings, technical literature, and their hardware and software.

44. Special Maintenance Systems, including hydrojetting tools, pneumatic torque wrenches; WOT / mobile cranes; hoists, grinders, high pressure cleaning systems, induction bending machines; auto welding machines, various welding equipments like girth-welding, vertical flux cord, bottom swa, four side edge preparation, angle rolls; rolling and levelling machines, sky climers, hot tapping machines, bolt tensioners, high pressure test pumps, tube bundle pullers, tube nippers, ultrasonic leak detectors, machine condition monitoling systems and associated subassemblies; vibration analysers and computerized alignments systems.

45. Sub - assemblies, tools accessories, protective coating /paint materials, store, spares, materials, supplies, consumables for running, repairing or maintenance of the good specified in this List.

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