Bharat Petroleum Refinery for Maharashtra
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 |
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Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is planning to set up a
refinery in Maharashtra with an annual capacity of 15 million tonnes at
an estimated cost of Rs25,000.
With no further scope to expand its 6.5 million-tonne-a-year Mumbai
refinery spread over 350 acres, the oil major is planning to set up the
new refinery somewhere between Mumbai and Goa. BPCL, a Fortune
500 company has a 7.5-million-tonne refinery at Vizag in Andhra
Pradesh, a 3 MMTPA refinery in Numaligarh in Assam, a 7.5 MMTPA
refinery at Kochi in Kerala, and a 6 MMTPA refinery at Bina, in Madhya
Pradesh, which has been set up as a joint venture with Oman Oil Company.
BPCL is looking at an area of over 2,000 acres of land for building the
new refinery and has intimated the Maharashtra government of its need
for the land for the project. The company is looking at
possibility of obtaining land at Raigad or Ratnagiri districts of
Maharashtra and is willing to look at Gujarat as an alternative if it
can not get the required area in Maharashtra.
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