New Delhi (11.10.2023): Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) has won the best Refinery Performance Improvement Award above 9 mmtpa capacity for its Manali refinery on all India basis at 26th Energy Technology Meet (ETM), which is being organised from October 9-11, 2023 at International Exhibition Cum Convention Centre (Bharat Mandapam), Pragati Maidan, New Delhi with Engineers India Limited (EIL) and Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) as co-hosts. Awards were presented to the winners by Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
Overall performance of CPCL was quite commendable. CPCL has achieved a record physical performance of 11.4 MMTPA (million metric tonnes per annum) throughput in FY 2023. CPCL’s Manali Refinery achieved the highest-ever throughput of 11.3 MMTPA in 2022–23, which is over 107 per cent of its capacity utilisation, as against 9.0 MMTPA in 2021–22.
The company also surpassed past records in the production of diesel (HSD), petrol (MS), aviation turbine fuel (ATF), naphtha, and hexane by 26.8 per cent, 14.3 per cent, 47.4 per cent, 23 per cent, and 6.3 per cent, respectively, compared to FY22, all of which are the highest-ever in the history of CPCL. As against the planned capex outlay of ₹584 crore, CPCL spent a higher sum of ₹609 crore on its projects, including JVs.
Arvind Kumar is the Managing Director of CPCL, who always talked about collective effort of the team for any success.
