MUMBAI: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), which runs refineries on the country’s west coast at Mumbai and Kochi with a capacity of 12 and 15.5 MMTPA respectively, said it will be ready with BS-VI fuel by September. The company will be able to roll out the fuel from October to January, senior BPCL officials said Friday.
With the debottlenecking and increasing capacity at its joint venture Bina refinery to 7.8 MMTPA in Madhya Pradesh, the company has already been supplying BS-VI fuels to NCT-NCR, said Arun Kumar Singh, director marketing. BPCL had spent around `8,000 crore towards fuel upgradation to BS-VI standards.