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BPCL supplies oxygen to govt hospitals
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Collector flags off first truck load
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Collector flags off first truck load
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), along with its business partner, Air Products, on Monday commenced supply of medical oxygen from the BPCL Kochi Refinery to meet the shortage faced by government hospitals in the district.
The company will supply around 1.5 tonnes of oxygen per day to government hospitals in the district. The truck carrying the first load of liquid oxygen was flagged off by District Collector S. Suhas in the presence of Sanjay Khanna, executive director (Kochi Refinery), BPCL.
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LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Air Products (NYSE: APD), a world leader in industrial gases megaproject development and execution, today announced that the Kochi Industrial Gas Complex is reliably supplying syngas to the Propylene Derivatives Petrochemical Project (PDPP) at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) Kochi Refinery. This is the company s second supply contract with BPCL at Kochi. Air Products already operates a world-scale industrial gas complex which was commissioned in 2017, and inaugurated in 2018, to support the BPCL Integrated Refinery Expansion Project (IREP) at the same location.
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