KOCHI: Kochi Refinery, the largest asset of Bharat Petroleum, is set to complete a Rs 6,000-crore PDP complex by this month-end with the commissioning of the last unit that will manufacture niche petrochemical product acrylate, helping the nation save over Rs 4,000 crore in foreign exchange annually.
The Rs 6,000-crore propylene derivatives petrochemical (PDP) complex got delayed by a year due to the pandemic as project engineers from Japanese giant Mitsubishi, the technology and engineering partner of the project, could not travel to the project site in Kochi, forcing BPCL to get most of the project monitoring work done virtually.
