Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) has set up a Petrochemical Complex at Lepetkata. The complex is spread over 3000 Bighas of land at Lepetkata and is situated approximately 15 Kilometres away from the Tea City Dibrugarh, Assam.M/s Engineers India Limited (EIL) was the Engineering and Project Management Consultant for this prestigious project.
The plant came as a part of the historic Assam Accord signed on 15th August 1985 with the motive of the overall socio-economic development of the region. It was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 18th April 2006.
Subsequently, a Joint Venture Company, BCPL, was incorporated on 08th January 2007 as a Central Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Govt. of India. Dr. Manmohan Singh, Honourable Prime Minister of India laid the foundation stone of this project on 9th April 2007.
Technologies in BCPL
Cracker Unit is based on the technology licensed by Lummus, USA. It is a dual feed cracker with C2+ liquid and naphtha as feed stock. The unit is designed to produce 2, 20,000 TPA of polymer grade Ethylene and 60,000 TPA of polymer grade of Propylene.
LLDPE/HDPE Swing unit is based on gas phase process technology which is licenced by INEOS Technology, UK. This technology can manufacture Polyethylene grades having MI value in the range of 0.05 to 21.0 g/10 min and density value in the range of 0.920 to 0.960 g/cc.
Poly-Propylene Plant is based on Gas Phase Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH (NTH), Germany. It is designed to produce 60,000 TPA of various grades of polypropylene. The product range of the PP plant covers various grades of homopolymer and random copolymer manufactured by gas phase polymerisation in one vertically stirred bed reactor.
BCPL has entered into an agreement with GAIL (India) Limited for marketing of its products.
GAIL (India) Limited is the main promoter having 70% of equity participation and the rest 30% is equally shared by Oil India Ltd (OIL), Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), and the Government of Assam.
The plant was successfully commissioned on 2nd January 2016 and Hon’ble Prime Minister, Narendra Modi dedicated BCPL Petrochemical Complex to the Nation on 5th Feb’2016. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 24th December 2019 approved the transfer of administrative control of BCPL from the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers to the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
BCPL comprises of four work stations i.e. GDU Duliajan where Feed Natural Gas is received from M/s. Oil India Limited, Railway Siding where Naphtha received from M/s. NRL is unloaded, Lake GSU Cum C2+ Hydro Carbon Recovery Unit where Feed Natural Gas supplied by M/s. ONGC has processed and The Main Petrochemical Complex at Lepetkata, Dibrugarh where Polymers are being produced after processing the feedstocks.
Gas Dehydration and Compressor at Duliajan and Natural Gas Sweetening Unit Cum C2+ Recovery Section at Lakwa are approx. 48 kms away from Lepetkata Main complex.
The principal end products of the complex are High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and Linear Low-Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) totaling 2, 20,000 Tonnes per Annum (TPA) and 60,000 TPA of Poly-Propylene (PP). The other products include Hydrogenated Pyrolysis Gasoline and Pyrolysis Fuel Oil.
