Murali Madhavan to take over as Kochi Refinery head

KOCHI: Murali Madhavan P will take over as the unit head of BPCL Kochi Refinery from January 1 as Prasad K Panicker who has been the executive director and head of the company for the past seven years retires.

Prior to this, Murali Madhavan was executive director (refinery operations).

Under Panicker’s leadership Kochi Refinery completed its integrated refinery expansion project (IREP) at a cost of Rs 16,500 crores and became the largest public sector refinery in the country.