Annual Report 2008-2009 - Bharat Petroleum
Annual Report 2008-2009 - Bharat Petroleum
Annual Report 2008-2009 - Bharat Petroleum
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with the prestigious Ramakrishna Bajaj National<br />
Quality Performance Excellence Award <strong>2008</strong> under the<br />
Manufacturing Category. The Refinery has achieved the<br />
rare distinction of winning this award for the second<br />
time in a row. The seven key categories covered<br />
leadership, strategic planning, customer & market focus,<br />
measurement, analysis and knowledge management,<br />
workforce focus, process management & business<br />
results. The Refinery team’s suggestion on ‘Reduction<br />
in Bitumen Lorry Turnaround Time in Mumbai Refinery’<br />
was adjudged the Best Suggestion and awarded the first<br />
prize in the 19th <strong>Annual</strong> Convention organized by INSSAN<br />
(Indian National Suggestion Schemes’ Association) at<br />
Jamshedpur. This prestigious award has been won by<br />
Mumbai Refinery for the second year in succession.<br />
Kochi Refinery<br />
The year saw Kochi Refinery achieving a throughput of<br />
7.68 MMT as compared to 8.20 MMT in the previous year.<br />
The capacity utilization of the refinery stood at 102.4%.<br />
The refinery achieved its highest level of production of<br />
ATF, Euro-III HSD, LSHFHSD and Bitumen, besides filling<br />
a record number of 5,26,443 Bitumen drums. The gross<br />
refining margin for the year <strong>2008</strong>-09 was USD 6.27 per<br />
barrel of crude oil processed, as against USD 7.18 per<br />
barrel in the previous year.<br />
Kochi Refinery’s Quality Control Laboratory continued<br />
its participation in the Shell Main Products Correlation<br />
Scheme of M/s. Shell Global Solutions, Netherlands and<br />
was awarded four gold certificates for achieving 100%<br />
satisfactory performance in the scheme during the<br />
financial year <strong>2008</strong>-09. Kochi Refinery has implemented<br />
Phase I of the Asset Integrity Management System<br />
(AIMS), an initiative to enhance mechanical integrity and<br />
reliability of static equipment in the Refinery.<br />
During the year, there was no accident / fire incident<br />
at Kochi Refinery. The refinery achieved 13 million<br />
man-hours of operation without any Lost Time Accident<br />
during the year.<br />
On the environment conservation front, Kochi Refinery<br />
installed an additional Ambient Air Quality Monitoring<br />
System (AAQMS) at the Shore Tank Farm area,<br />
Puthuvypeen, to monitor 11 key Pollutant Parameters<br />
on a continuous basis. The traditional Bitumen-<br />
Blowing Unit for Bitumen production was replaced with<br />
state-of-the-art Biturox Technology for production of<br />
various grades of Bitumen.<br />
Quality Circles have been a key improvement initiative for<br />
Kochi Refinery since 2004. The refinery has 14 Quality<br />
Circles spanning functional areas like Manufacturing,<br />
Power & Utilities, Maintenance, Oil Movement & Storage,<br />
Finance and Human Resources.<br />
The refinery received the Safety Innovation Award for<br />
Implementing Innovative Safety Management System<br />
from The Institution of Engineers (India), Delhi State<br />
Centre. It was also awarded the First prize for outstanding<br />
performance in Industrial Safety among Large Factories<br />
(Employing more than 500 workers) in the Chemical /<br />
<strong>Petroleum</strong> category, from the Department of Factories<br />
& Boilers, Government of Kerala, second prize for the<br />
Occupational Health Centre from amongst all the factories<br />
in Kerala from the Department of Factories & Boilers,<br />
Government of Kerala and the Gold award for outstanding<br />
achievement in safety management in the <strong>Petroleum</strong><br />
Refinery sector, from the Greentech Foundation.<br />
During the year, major community initiatives like<br />
construction of a new operation theatre and infrastructure<br />
facilities at Government hospitals, building of roads,<br />
culverts and bridges at rural areas, were undertaken. A<br />
medical camp was conducted exclusively for the tribal<br />
population in a remote settlement inside the forest of<br />
Malayattur Range in the Western Ghats.<br />
The Integrated Refinery Business Improvement<br />
Program was initiated at Kochi Refinery with the help of<br />
M/s. Shell Global Solutions International and Centre for<br />
High Technology, New Delhi. This program is aimed at<br />
developing solutions to reduce the gaps in performance<br />
of the refinery in the areas of energy management,<br />
operational performance and overall refinery margin, in<br />
comparison with the Asia Pacific and Global refineries, as<br />
identified in the benchmarking exercise undertaken earlier.<br />
A total of 19 Proposals for Improvement (PFIs) were<br />
identified during the assessment phase of the program,<br />
with a total benefit potential of 34 cents/barrel. Of these,<br />
implementation of four PFIs has been completed and<br />
benefits are being realized. The remaining PFIs are under<br />
various stages of implementation.<br />
In the recent past, the upward surge in crude oil prices,<br />
coupled with poor crack spreads, have put the refinery<br />
margins under pressure. This situation is unlikely to<br />
change significantly in the near future. Further, the<br />
refineries are mandated to upgrade the quality of their<br />
auto fuel products (MS and HSD) to meet Euro-III/IV<br />
specifications by April 2010. The Mumbai and Kochi<br />
refineries are gearing up to meet these and other<br />
challenges facing them. The thrust is on reducing the<br />
operating and energy costs by rationalization and fuel<br />
substitutions on one hand and undertaking initiatives<br />
on improving value generation by optimizing the crude<br />
and product mix, on the other. The refineries have<br />
demonstrated their capability of implementing focused<br />
programs by engaging a large cross-section of their<br />
employees for generating and implementing innovative<br />
ideas for sustained improvement and deriving significant<br />
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