Mangaluru: As a major step towards meeting its goals of Net Zero commitment and reducing carbon footprint, Coastal Karnataka-based petroleum Refinery Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) has taken up various initiatives towards a shift to sustainable practices and greener fuels.
Apart from taking steps to set up a Bio-ATF plant, Green Hydrogen generation and sourcing greener electric power from the grid, MRPL has recently taken a significant step towards this direction by signing with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) a long-term gas supply agreement for five years.
Under the agreement, BPCL will supply 0.43 MMSCMD (Million Metric Standard Cubic Meters per Day) of RLNG (Regasified Liquefied Natural Gas – LNG Re-gasified at import terminals before transporting it to consumers through Pipelines) to MRPL’s refinery and petrochemical facility at Mangalore from Cochin Terminal.
The agreement was signed in Mangalore on 1.2.2024 by Sathyanarayana H.C., GGM-TS of MRPL and Santhosh Sontakke CGM-Sourcing, Sales & logistics (Gas) of BPCL,
The agreement was signed in Mangalore on 1.2.2024 by Sathyanarayana H.C., GGM-TS of MRPL and Santhosh Sontakke CGM-Sourcing, Sales & logistics (Gas) of BPCL,
They signed the pact in the presence of Vivek Tongaonkar, Director Finance MRPL and Anil Kumar, ED-Gas of BPCL. BHV Prasad ED Projects and Shyam Prasad Kamath ED refinery of MRPL, along with senior officers of MRPL and BPCL.
Gas plays a significant role in refining crude oil, reducing feed costs, optimizing fuel, and lowering overall emissions from the refinery. MRPL intends to utilize RLNG as feed for the production of hydrogen and fuel for gas turbines to generate power, steam, and various furnaces.
Using natural gas in the refinery helps reduce both the emissions and carbon footprint of the refinery.
It was informed that based on economics, the refinery will replace naphtha, diesel and fuel oil with RLNG. These surplus products will be available in the market, post upgradation, in refinery process units.
MRPL is India’s largest PSU refinery in a single location.
Recently, MRPL became the first Indian refinery to be certified with the AS9100:D standard prepared by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) .Click on the link to learn more on this.
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