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BPCL to Commission Latest LPG Bottling Plant by September

Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) plans to commission a 45,000 t/yr LPG bottling plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu by September.

 

The 800mn rupees ($11mn) bottling plant in Madurai will serve the southern districts of the state. LPG will be received on tank trucks from the Palakkad LPG bulk dispatch terminal and stored in three mounted storage vessels, each with 900t of capacity.

 

This will be BPCL's 52nd bottling plant. The company has 4.56mn t/yr of LPG bottling capacity, which accounts for 22pc of total Indian capacity. India has 195 bottling plants, including 51 in the south of the country.

 

Indian LPG demand rose to 2.27mn t in July from 2.22mn t a year earlier and 2.08mn t in June. Demand has risen during India's Covid-19 outbreak, as the government offers free cylinder refills and movement restrictions boost the use of LPG as a cooking fuel.

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