BPCL Kochi Refinery has bagged the Technology Excellence Award 2018 at the 6th Indian Technology Congress 2018 in Bengaluru for its Integrated Refinery Expansion Project (IREP).
Prasad K Panicker, Executive Director (Kochi Refinery), received the award from Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.
The award instituted by the Indian Technology Congress Association (ITCA), is in recognition of the significant interdisciplinary engineering contribution to the commissioning of the IREP, positioning BPCL’s Kochi Refinery as the largest public sector refinery in India, and enabling it to manufacture auto-fuels complying with Bharat Stage IV(Euro IV/V) specifications, a release said.
IREP with a total cost of ₹16,500 crore was the largest project in the history of Kerala.