BPCL, OIL to discover collaboration for proposed refinery in Andhra Pradesh

State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and Oil India Limited (OIL) signed an MoU on Tuesday (October 28, 2025) to discover collaboration for BPCL’s upcoming greenfield refinery and petrochemical complicated close to Ramayapatnam Port in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh.

The corporations will consider alternatives for collaboration, together with the potential for OIL taking a minority fairness stake within the proposed three way partnership, for the proposed 9–12 million tonnes facility to be established with an estimated funding of ₹1 lakh crore ($11 billion). The mission has secured key statutory clearances and 6,000 acres from Andhra Pradesh Government, with pre-project actions in progress.

“By becoming a member of palms with OIL, we’re combining complementary strengths to create a mission of strategic scale and sustainability. The Ramayapatnam complicated won’t solely reshape BPCL’s portfolio but in addition reinforce India’s self-reliance in fuels and petrochemicals, in keeping with the imaginative and prescient of Atmanirbhar Bharat,” mentioned Sanjay Khanna, BPCL’s Director (Refineries) who’s holding further cost of Chairman and Managing Director submit.

This was one in every of three Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) BPCL signed on the sidelines of the three day Energy Technology Meet that obtained underway in Hyderabad. The different MoUs had been with Numaligarh Refinery (NRL) and Fertilisers & Chemicals Travancore (FACT).

CMD of Oil India and Chairman of Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) Ranjit Rath mentioned the “collaboration reaffirms our dedication to pursue varied strategic diversification initiatives to midstream and downstream”.

“Together, we intention to create long-term worth, improve power safety, and take part in India’s increasing refinery and petrochemical ecosystem. This collaboration additionally embodies OIL’s strategic intent to diversify into built-in power ventures that help sustainable nationwide development,” he added.

The Ramayapatnam complicated will characteristic a 1.5 MTPA ethylene cracker unit, the primary of its form in southern India, with a 35% petrochemical depth — among the many highest within the nation. The mission is slated for industrial operations by FY 2030 and anticipated to catalyse industrial growth, employment technology, and regional power safety.

BPCL, OIL and NRL additionally signed a tripartite MoU to facilitate environment friendly evacuation of petroleum merchandise following NRL’s enlargement from 3 MTPA to 9 MTPA. The settlement covers the joint building of a 700-km cross-country product pipeline from Siliguri to Mughalsarai by way of Muzaffarpur, with an estimated funding of ₹3,500 crore.

The pipeline will transfer petrol (Motor Spirit) (MS), High-Speed Diesel and Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) and collectively owned by BPCL (50%) with OIL and NRL sharing the remaining 50% stake.

The corporations will increase BPCL’s depots at Mughalsarai and Muzaffarpur, and develop new amenities at Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh), Korba (Chhattisgarh), Khagaria (Bihar) and Tatanagar (Jharkhand).

BPCL’s MoU with Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore (FACT) is for provide and buying and selling of Fermented Organic Manure (FOM) and Liquid Fermented Organic Manure (LFOM) produced from BPCL’s upcoming Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)-based Compressed Biogas (CBG) Plant at Brahmapuram, close to Kochi Refinery.

The plant will course of 150 MT of municipal waste per day, producing 5.6 MT of CBG, together with 28 MT of FOM and 100 KL of LFOM day by day.

This collaboration will allow FACT to commerce high-quality natural fertilizers, supporting sustainable agriculture whereas contributing to India’s waste-to-energy and inexperienced gas imaginative and prescient, BPCL mentioned in a launch.

Senior officers of the businesses exchanged the MoU paperwork within the presence of Pankaj Jain, Secretary to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.