Indian Oil Corporation to supply oxygen to hospitals in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab
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Last Updated: Apr 19, 2021, 06:01 PM IST
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In the face of a massive surge in demand for medical oxygen during the second wave of the pandemic, IOC has diverted the high-purity oxygen used in its Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) unit to produce medical-grade liquid oxygen at its Panipat refinery and petrochemical complex in Haryana.
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BPCL) have begun diverting oxygen produced at their refineries to supplement the availability of medical oxygen in states worst hit by COVID-19. In a statement, IOC said it has begun the supply of 150 tonnes of oxygen at no cost to various hospitals in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab.
State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) on Thursday said it will supply medical oxygen to Kerala from its Kochi Refinery to meet shortage of the same for critical patients of COVID-19. The company will be supplying around 1.5 tonnes per day of oxygen to government hospitals from this facility, BPCL said in a statement. Last year, the company had supplied around 25 tonnes of medical oxygen when the average daily cases had risen in October-November. The build-own-operate unit of Kochi Refinery has a provision to produce and store liquid oxygen of 99.7 per cent purity. Currently, the company has around 20 tonne of storage of oxygen from which the government hospitals will be supplied.
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