Bharat Petroleum

Name: Bharat Petroleum
Address: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Rating: 5

Oil And Gas In Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

About Bharat Petroleum

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. It operates three refineries in Bina, Kochi and Mumbai.

BPCL is India's second-largest government-owned downstream oil producer, whose operations are overseen by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. It was ranked 309th on the 2020 Fortune list of the world's biggest public sector undertakings, and 792nd on Forbes's 2021 "Global 2000" list.

Bharat Petroleum Features

Bharat Petroleum operates the following refineries:

1. Mumbai Refinery : Located near Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has a capacity of 13 million metric tonnes per annum.
2. Kochi Refinery : Located near Kochi, Kerala. It has a capacity of 15.5 million metric tonnes per annum.
3. Bina Refinery : Located near Bina, Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh. It has a capacity of 7.8 million metric tonnes per year. This refinery started as Bharat Oman Refineries Limited (BORL), a joint venture between Bharat Petroleum and OQ (formerly known as Oman Oil Company).

Incorporated in 1994, BORL also has single point mooring (SPM) system, crude oil terminal (COT) and a 937 km (582 mi) long cross-country crude oil pipeline from Vadinar, Gujarat to Bina, Madhya Pradesh. As of April 2021, BORL is a subsidiary of BPCL.

They have popular Loyalty Program like Petrocard, Smartfleet.

As of 2018, BPCL was also setting up a Second-generation biofuels refinery at Baulsingha village in Bargarh district, Odisha of 100 kilo litre per day (KLPD) capacity. The plant would be using 2 Lakh tonnes of rice straw to generate fuel.