BPCL to invest up to Rs20,000 cr on petrochem plant
BPCL to invest up to Rs20,000 cr on petrochem plant
New Delhi: Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), India’s second-largest public sector refinery, is planning Rs18,000 crore to Rs20,000 crore investment over the next five years for setting up a petrochemical plant and expansion of the Kochi refinery.
“We are expanding Kochi refinery from 9.5 million million tonne per year to 15 million tons a year," he said on the sidelines of the 3rd India Africa Hydrocarbon Conference here.
From the expansion, BPCL is looking at manufacturing some propylene derivatives, which are currently imported and not manufactured in the country, Singh said.
The petrochemical project would use feedstock from the expanded refinery and the projects are likely to be completed in the next five years.
“While the refinery expansion will be funded by BPCL, for petrochemical plant we are looking for a foreign partner preferably a licensor of the speciality chemical we intend to manufacture," he said.
Besides the Kochi refinery expansion, BPCL plans to add capacity at the new joint venture grassroots refinery it commissioned this year in Bina in Madhya Pradesh and also add capacity at its Mumbai refinery.
Singh said the Bina refinery is proposed to be expanded by 3 million tonne, to 9 million tonne a year.
BPCL’s 12 million tonne Mumbai refinery would add 2-3 million tonne per annum through yield optimization and operational efficiencies.
Bina refinery, which was inaugurated in May, is expected to stabilize by year-end.
Besides Mumbai, Kochi and Bina refinery, BPCL also operates 3 million tonne Numaligarh Refinery in Assam.
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