Jul 03: Maintenance of existing tanks at the Kochi refinery is scheduled in terms of two tanks in 2017, one in 2018 and another in 2019 which makes the net available storage capacity go down to 287 TMT and 165 TMT at the Refinery and th eStorage Tank Farm (STF) respectively in the three years.
8By taking this into account and by constructing two tanks at the STF, crude oil stock availability can be increased by an additional 1.2 days.
8Subsequent to the refinery expansion, the usage of one tank each at the refinery and the STF works out to be 6 days and 3.5 days respectively and hence monthly throughput will be 1400 TMT for which 5x 280 TMT VLCCs are required.
8One VLCC cargo load has to be planned once in 6 days to meet the crude oil requirement of refinery on sustained basis while the refinery would be processing 46.5 TMT of crude oil every day.
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BPCL-Kochi Refinery 1: Expanding capacity by 6 MMTPA

BPCL-KR is in the process of Rs 290 crore expansion project at kochi, which will expand its capacity by 6 MMTPA from its existing capacity of 9.5 MMTPA.
8To meet the storage requirements it proposes to construct two additional Crude Storages of capacity 82,300 KL.
8Post IREP (Integrated Refinery Expansion Project), it is planned to construct two new crude oil tanks of 41 TMT capacity along with conversion of one intermediate stream storage tank into crude oil service.
8Presently there are 4 crude storage tanks of 82,300 KL capacity at the Shore Tank Farm(STF) and 8 tanks with net storage capacity of 287 TMT while one tank of 41TMT under mainteneance.
It is also planned to convert 4 existing crude oil tanks into High Speed Diesel and Naptha.
8Crude Oil received at the SPM is pumped to shore through a 1200 NB submarine pipeline at rate of 8250 m 3 /hr.
8The Onshore Shore Tank Farm at Puthuvypeen has facilities for receipt, storage and transfer of the crude oil to the Kochi Refinery at a rate of 3150m 3 /hr and then from the STF, crude oil will be pumped to the Refinery through a 750 NB cross- ountry pipeline.
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BPCL-Kochi Refinery II: Demand and Supply Gap

Maintenance of existing tanks are scheduled in 2 X 2017, 1 X 2018 and 1 X 2019 which makes the net available storage capacity reduced to 287 TMT and 165 TMT at Refinery and Storage Tank Farm(STF) respectively.
8By constructing the proposed two tanks at STF crude oil stock availability can be increased to 1.2 days more.
8Post IREPcrude processing of one tank each at refinery and STF is worked out to be 6 days and 3.5 days respectively and hence monthly throughput will be 1400 TMT for which 5x 280 TMT VLCCs are required.
8One VLCC cargo has to be planned once in 6 days to meet the crude oil requirement of Refinery on sustained basis while refinery would be processing 46.5TMT of crude oil every day.
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