The Bokaro LPG bottling of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) will be commissioned in December this year, a senior company official said. The Bokaro plant will be the first state of art LPG bottling plant in Jharkhand and will have a capacity of over four million cylinders annually, Chief General Manager (Sales) Vijay Tilak said.
He said the Bokaro LPG bottling plant is being built with an estimated project cost of Rs 934 million. It will bottle 42.3 lakh cylinders annually and will serve all the 24 districts of Jharkhand.
Tilak said that the Bokaro plant of the BPCL will be the 55th LPG bottling plant of the company in the entire country.
He said BPCL operationalised its LPG bottling plant at Balangir in Odisha in July and is preparing to commission the LPG bottling plant at Madurai in Tamil Nadu in September.
The company has 4.56mn t/yr of LPG bottling capacity, which accounts for 22 per cent of total Indian capacity. India has 195 bottling plants.
BPCL has a customer base of 9.55 lakh households in Jharkhand and 103 domestic LPG distributors. It supplies 12,000 cylinders daily in the state.
BPCL has been catering to its customers through the existing private bottling plant at Ranchi and supplies from Durgapur in West Bengal but the increase in the customer base and supply of cylinders are bound to multiply with the commissioning of the new plant at Bokaro, said Tilak.
