CCOE Compliance
Software for India

CCOE (Chief Controller of Explosives) is the Indian statutory regulatory authority for the safe manufacture, storage, transport, and handling of petroleum, compressed gases, and explosives. CCOE is headquartered in Nagpur and operates through regional offices across India. It administers the Explosives Act 1884, the Petroleum Act 1934, the Petroleum Rules 2002, the Static and Mobile Pressure Vessels (Unfired) Rules 2016, and the Gas Cylinders Rules 2016. The administrative arm of CCOE is PESO (Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation). For practical purposes, CCOE and PESO compliance are one integrated regulatory workflow.

They are closely related. CCOE is the statutory authority, the Chief Controller of Explosives sits at the apex with legal authority under the Explosives Act and the Petroleum Act. PESO (Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation) is the administrative organisation under DPIIT that implements CCOE regulations through field offices, licence issuance, and inspections. Licences are issued under CCOE authority. Both terms are widely used interchangeably by industry. See /compliance/peso for the broader PESO compliance workflow; this page (/compliance/ccoe) focuses specifically on the CCOE licence and inspection register.

Pathnovo provides end-to-end CCOE compliance automation: (1) licence register across all CCOE licence types, (2) hazardous area classification validation, (3) competent person register with training / medical currency tracking, (4) CCOE inspection record management with findings-to-closure traceability, (5) licence modification workflow tied to MoC, (6) Emergency Response Plan currency, (7) one-click audit package generation, and (8) multi-site consolidation. For Indian oil marketing companies and LPG bottler networks, this is the only available automation.

All CCOE licence categories: Form XIV (petroleum class A / B / C storage licences), Form XV (compressed gas storage: LPG, LNG, industrial gases including oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, acetylene, ammonia, chlorine), Form A (explosives import), Form B (explosives storage and magazines), Form AE (explosives manufacture), road tanker approvals (for petroleum and gases), pipeline approvals (petroleum and gas), cylinder approvals, aviation fuel licences, LPG bottling plant licences, and LNG regasification licences.

Yes. A typical Indian petroleum facility has decades of Chief Controller correspondence (licence grants, amendment approvals, inspection directions, show-cause notices, deviation approvals, special-condition grants) accumulated over 30–50 years in paper files, scanned PDFs, and Excel trackers. Pathnovo digitises and structures all of it into a chronological licence history with searchable findings, directions, and closures.

CCOE / Deputy CCOE / PESO field officer inspections follow a predictable protocol: licence validity review, licence condition compliance review, safety device inspection, hazardous area / equipment certification review, competent person interview, training records review, ERP review, modification log review, and previous findings review. Pathnovo generates the complete evidence pack in CCOE-accepted format in one click. Desk-review time typically drops from 2–4 days to 4–8 hours. Field-verification time is preserved for actual equipment inspection instead of document search.

CCOE licence conditions require specified operational roles to be held by CCOE-approved competent persons. Examples: LPG bottling plant supervisor, tank farm operator, tanker loading officer, explosives magazine custodian, pipeline operator. Each role has specified qualifications, CCOE training requirements, medical fitness currency, and in some cases CCOE-issued competent person certificates. Gaps (e.g. a plant operating with an expired competent person certificate, or with a vacancy not filled by a certified person) are an immediate non-conformity in any CCOE inspection. Pathnovo's competent person register flags gaps in real time.

The same physical equipment in an Indian petroleum facility is typically subject to all three regulatory regimes: CCOE / PESO (hazardous area, licence-scope, safety devices), IBR 1950 (pressure equipment), and OISD 118 (HAZOP and inter-distance for OISD-jurisdiction operators). Pathnovo runs one integrated compliance engine across all three: equipment master shared, inspection findings cross-visible, audit preparation pulls evidence from all three regimes. See /compliance/ibr and /compliance/oisd-118 for related workflows, or /compliance/indian-epc-compliance-bundle for the unified bundle.

Yes. Road tanker approvals (for petroleum and compressed gases) require separate licensing per tanker with periodic retesting, driver qualification currency, and tanker-specific safety device inspection. Petroleum and gas pipeline licences carry CCOE approval with specific route conditions, inspection requirements, and pressure test currency. Pathnovo maintains both registers alongside the fixed-site licence register for a consolidated compliance picture. Indian upstream-to-marketing operators with multi-modal logistics benefit most from this integrated view.

Project-based for initial setup (legacy correspondence digitisation, licence scope encoding, integration with plant systems, multi-site consolidation setup): typically $6,000 to $30,000 depending on licence count, site count, and legacy data condition. Annual maintenance is a per-licence / per-site recurring fee. For large multi-site operators (40+ licences), consolidated enterprise pricing is offered. Indian PSU rate-card compatibility available.