IndianOil to commission LPG import terminal in Kochi soon.

IndianOil is set to commission the ₹1,236-crore LPG import terminal at Puthuvypeen near Kochi shortly.

Sanjib Kumar Behera, Chief General Manager and Kerala State Head, said over 95 per cent of the work of the terminal has been completed and currently dredging works are in progress for the 1.2 mtpa (million tonne per annum) capacity multi-utility liquid terminal (MULT). The project is intended to fulfill the entire LPG demand of Kerala.

The work on the LPG terminal was envisaged in 2008. However, residents of the area protested and the work was delayed and began in 2018. With the commissioning of the LPG terminal, Kerala will end its dependence on the road for the movement of fuel from Mangaluru to the bottling plants in different parts of the State.

According to Behera, the active customer base of Indane LPG in Kerala is about 47.75 lakh out of the total LPG customer base of 94.89 lakh in the State, which is approximately 50.32 per cent of the total LPG connections. The company has a bottling capacity of 420 ttpa (thousand tonnes per annum) across its three LPG bottling plants located in Kochi, Kollam and Kozhikode.

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