Brahmaptura Cracker and Polymer, ONGC sign feedstock agreement for Assam gas cracker project

BPCL chief operating officer R K Kashyap and ONGC director and asset manager for Assam J G Chaturvedi inked the deal in the presence of union minister of state for chemicals B K Handique, GAIL CMD Dr UD Choubey, and other senior officials of the two companies in New Delhi.

BCPL has now signed feedstock agreements with all the three suppliers - the other two being Oil India Limited (OIL) and Numaligarh Refineries Limited (NRL) - that will supply feedstock to the petrochemical plant.

BCPL will source 6.0 million metric standard cubic metres per day (MMSCMD) of gas from OIL''s Duliajan facility, which will be processed to recover C2+ liquid as feedstock. The leftover gas after recovery of C2+ liquid will be returned to the gas consumers.

>It will also use 160,000 TPA of petrochemical grade naphtha from Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), as well as 1.35 MMSCMD of gas from ONGC up to 31 March 2012 and 1 MMSCMD thereafter.

The petrochemical complex will comprise a cracker unit, downstream polymer and integrated off-site and utilities plants. The complex has a capacity of 220,000 TPA of ethylene and 60,000 TPA of propylene.

GAIL''s existing liquid petroleum gas (LPG) plant at Lakwa will be modified to process gas for recovery of ethane and higher hydrocarbon fractions, which will be transported to Lepetkata through a pipeline.