Kochi: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) has begun a trial run on its 33-km aviation turbine fuel (ATF) pipeline linking the company’s refinery here to the Cochin International Airport, Nedumbassery, and has finalised plans to lay a 229-km pipeline linking Kochi and Coimbatore for cooking gas supply.
The LPG pipeline from BPCL’s refinery here to Coimbatore will be established at a cost of over Rs. 500 crore. The pipeline will eliminate the need for transporting by road cooking gas to bottling plants between Kochi and Coimbatore.
The LPG pipeline project is linked to the refinery’s integrated expansion and modernisation, which will result in the BPCL refinery producing 1.26 million tonnes of LPG. Kerala’s monthly LPG requirement is around 65,000 tonnes.
03/05/13 KA Martin/The Hindu
