BPCL Charts 10-Year LPG Infra Expansion Plan with Capex of Rs. 46 billion

State-run Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) has chalked out a 10-year expansion plan with a capex of Rs. 46 billion as the oil marketing company (OMC) aims to meet the commodity’s growing usage, particularly among PM Ujjawala beneficiaries.

BPCL’s LPG import requirement has grown, largely led by PMUY and increased penetration across the country. To meet this growing demand, infrastructure has to keep pace. Besides, recent LPG usage numbers also point towards the need to expand capacity, an official said.

India’s LPG demand is rising with PMUY beneficiaries per capita consumption hitting a record 4.47 cylinders in FY25 and non-PMUY usage growing to 6.64 cylinders. PSU OMCs sold a total of 31.2 million tonnes (mt) LPG during the year, an over 5 per cent growth Y-o-Y.

BPCL, which receives more than 488 million bookings requests via digital or phone medium annually, registered its highest-ever packed LPG sales of 8.339 million tonnes.

The business also secured first position in the Domestic, Packed, Bulk and Total LPG categories during FY25. It enrolled 1.242 million customers, taking the total customer base to 0.946 million (including PMUY: around 26.8 million).

The official quoted above said that BPCL has planned to expand its LPG infrastructure over the next 10 years with a Rs. 4,600 capex, which includes adding additional storage and augmenting import facilities.

The LPG import facility at JNPT Uran is undergoing augmentation involving an investment of Rs. 18 billion with storage capacity enhancement from 30,000 tonnes to 60,000 tonnes and is planned to be completed by 2026.

The project envisages debottlenecking and augmentation of cryogenic facilities to meet future import requirements and ensure uninterrupted and smooth supply chain operations to meet the growing LPG demand.

In the next 10 years to meet the infrastructure requirement in line with growth in LPG demand, BPCL is going for an additional storage of 22,000 tonnes with capex of Rs. 7 billion.

Additional cavern storage of 95,000 tonnes along pipeline route with capex of Rs. 20 billion. Adding storage in the new import terminal on the West Coast/ East Coast with storage capacity of 80,000 tonnes involves a capex of Rs. 17 billion, the same official said.