Indian EPC Compliance
IBR + OISD 118 + PESO + CCOE

In Indian process industries, the same physical equipment is routinely subject to all four regulatory regimes. A steam drum is IBR-scoped (pressure), OISD 118-scoped (HAZOP on the steam circuit), PESO-scoped (hazardous area around the drum), and CCOE-scoped (licence covers steam generation in petroleum installations). Managing each regime separately leads to data silos, evidence chain breaks, and audit preparation duplication. Pathnovo runs all four on a shared equipment master so compliance is validated once and reported four ways.

A typical Indian petrochemical plant is subject to: (1) state Directorate of Steam Boilers for IBR 1950 compliance on pressure equipment, (2) OISD under MoPNG for OISD 118 HAZOP and inter-distance (for petroleum-jurisdiction plants), (3) PESO regional office for hazardous area and safety device compliance under the Petroleum Rules 2002, (4) CCOE (administered through PESO) for licence issuance and field inspection under the Explosives Act and Petroleum Act. Additionally: state Factories Inspectorate (Factories Act), state Pollution Control Board (environmental), and AERB for nuclear if applicable. The IBR / OISD / PESO / CCOE bundle covers the four core process-plant safety regimes.

Generic EHS platforms (Cority, Intelex, Sphera, Enablon, Velocity EHS) provide global EHS management: incident reporting, corrective actions, audit management, training records. They have no native understanding of Indian regulatory structures. They cannot auto-populate IBR Form IV, they do not encode OISD 118 inter-distance tables, they do not know Indian hazardous area classification practices, they have no integration with CCOE licence formats. Pathnovo is built Indian-regulation-first: IBR, OISD 118, PESO, CCOE are encoded as first-class data models with Indian state-format coverage. It is not a generic EHS tool repurposed for India; it is purpose-built for Indian process plants.

Yes, this is a headline use case. During EPC, all four regulatory regimes are progressively built up: IBR pressure equipment is sourced with mill certificates, OISD 118 HAZOP studies are conducted at each design milestone, PESO hazardous area classification is defined at layout freeze, CCOE licence applications are prepared for handover. Historically the resulting documentation is chaotic at handover. Pathnovo builds a live compliance register during EPC across all four regimes. On Day 1 of handover, the owner-operator receives a complete, audit-ready compliance stack instead of paper files. The first post-handover audit happens from Pathnovo, not from rebuilding evidence.

Yes. Brownfield digitisation is the largest single engagement category. A typical Indian PSU refinery or petrochemical complex has 30–50 years of accumulated compliance records across all four regimes: handwritten IBR Form IV log books, scanned HAZOP studies in Word / PDF from the 1990s onward, paper CCOE correspondence files, Excel-based PESO inspection trackers. Pathnovo digitises and structures all of it into the unified live register. A typical brownfield engagement runs 6–12 weeks and delivers full audit-readiness across all four regimes on completion.

Oil refineries (IBR + OISD 118 + PESO + CCOE, all four central to operations), petrochemical plants (full bundle), fertiliser plants (IBR + PESO + CCOE particularly, OISD selectively), LNG / LPG facilities (CCOE-heavy with PESO and IBR), city gas distribution networks (PESO + CCOE-heavy), petroleum storage depots (CCOE + PESO primary), industrial gas manufacturers (CCOE Form XV + PESO hazardous area), and chemical plants with large solvent storage (CCOE Form XIV + PESO hazardous area + IBR if applicable).

For operators with multiple facilities (oil marketing companies with 40+ depots, LPG bottler networks with 100+ plants, major refiners with 3–12 refineries, petrochemical operators with multi-unit complexes), Pathnovo provides consolidated enterprise views: corporate compliance dashboard, licence validity heat-map across sites, renewal pipeline, open non-conformities by site / regime, regulatory correspondence log, and multi-site audit calendar. Each site remains independently managed and auditable, but corporate-level compliance posture is visible in real time.

Pricing depends on scope: single-facility operational compliance starts at $12,000 annual subscription with one-time setup. Multi-site enterprise contracts for 40+ facilities are quoted on site-count and regime-count basis, typically $120,000-600,000 annual with one-time legacy digitisation. EPC contractor engagements are priced per project based on equipment count and HAZOP volume. Indian PSU rate-card compatibility available for government projects. All pricing ranges are ceilinged by equivalent manual consultancy cost, which typically runs $360,000-960,000 per year for a major operator; Pathnovo delivers structural savings across the board.