India’s leading state-controlled gas transportation company Gail India is planning to double the capacity of its petrochemical subsidiary Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) in Assam. Gail has already commissioned a study for doubling the firm’s petrochemical capacity, its chairman-cum-managing director B C Tripathi recently said.

The plant of BCPL, commissioned in 2016, operated at 107 per cent capacity last fiscal, and is currently running at 110 per cent capacity, he said. The plant had suffered low capacity utilisation clocking just 37 per cent in fiscal 2016-17, and 78 per cent in 2017-18.

This year onwards, BCPL is expected to make regular profits of over ₹200 crore, a report in a top Indian newspaper quoted Tripathi as saying.

Natural gas supply from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation were also started in February 2017, after the connecting pipeline came on stream in December 2016. The required quantity of naphtha is being supplied by Numaligarh Refinery Ltd., said CRISIL in a ratings report. Gail is also building a natural gas pipeline from Barauni to Guwahati.

BCPL has a capacity to produce 220,000 tonne per annum (TPA) of polyethylene (PE) products, and 60,000 TPA of polypropylene (PP), a raw material for technical textiles. (DS)

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