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Hydrocarbon Vision 2030 (ஹைட்ரோகார்பன் தொலைநோக்கு ஆவணம் 2030)

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Annexure VIII: Major projects/schemes underway<br />

Brahmaputra Crackers and Polymer Ltd, Dibrugarh (Assam)<br />

Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited is implementing the prestigious Assam Gas Cracker<br />

project, the first ever petrochemical project in NER. The project came as a part of the historic Assam<br />

Accord signed on August 15, 1985 with the motive of overall socio-economic development of the<br />

region. It was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on April 18, 2006.<br />

Subsequently a joint venture company BCPL was incorporated on January 8, 2007 as a central public<br />

sector enterprise under the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Govt. of India. The project is<br />

expected to generate scope for substantial investments in setting up of downstream plastic<br />

processing industries that will generate both direct as well as indirect employment.<br />

GAIL (India) Ltd is the main promoter with 70% of equity participation; the rest 30% is equally shared<br />

by Oil India Ltd (OIL), Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) and the Government of Assam.<br />

The complex is spread over 3,000 bighas of land at Lepetkata, and situated approximately 15<br />

kilometres away from the tea city Dibrugarh.<br />

The feedstock for the project will be natural gas and naphtha. OIL and ONGC will supply natural gas<br />

and naphtha shall be supplied by NRL. The principal end-products of the complex will be high-density<br />

polyethylene (HDPE) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) totaling 2,20,000 tonnes per<br />

annum (TPA) and 60,000 TPA of polypropylene (PP). The other products include raw pyrolysis<br />

gasoline and fuel oil.<br />

The products produced at BCPL have varying uses in the manufacturing of various plastic products.<br />

The uses of principal end-products from BCPL are tabled below.<br />

Products<br />

LLDPE grade (MFI-0.9)<br />

LLDPE grade (MFI – 2.0)<br />

LLDPE grade (MFI- 4.0)<br />

HMHDPE (MFI –I21- 10)<br />

MDPE (MFI 3.0)<br />

MDPE (MFI 4.0)<br />

HDPE (MFI – 4.5)<br />

HDPE (MFI – 8.4)<br />

HDPE (MFI – 21)<br />

HDPE (MFI – 1.0)<br />

HDPE (MFI -0.2)<br />

HDPE (MFI – I21 - 10)<br />

Polypropylene<br />

TQ Film (MFI-12)<br />

Raffia (MFI – 3.4)<br />

Injection moulding (MFI -12)<br />

Usage<br />

Packaging films, liners<br />

Stretch films and stretch film rolls<br />

High quality packaging films, bubble film packaging<br />

Trash bag, carrier bags<br />

Draining parts, fuel tanks etc.<br />

Tanks, containers, waste bins, road dividers<br />

Dustbins, pallet boxes, fish crates, technical mouldings<br />

Crates, boxes, pallets, closures, helmets<br />

Housewares, buckets and baskets<br />

Fishnets, raffia bags<br />

Oil containers, lube containers<br />

Large containers<br />

Textile overwraps, garments bag, snack food packaging<br />

Raffia bags, leno bags<br />

Rigid packaging, furniture, house wares, closures etc.<br />

BCPL is the only Petrochemical project of such a mega size at a single location in the entire North East<br />

region. With the setting-up of this project, it is expected to give rise to the consumption of polymer in<br />

this part of the country. The availability of raw material will facilitate the development of numerous<br />

downstream polymer industries in the region. One such plastic park has been conceptualized by<br />

Govt. of Assam at Tinsukia to facilitate entrepreneurs in setting-up of new polymer processing<br />

industries. This plastic park is expected to house around 256 downstream plastic industries and<br />

according to DFR, this has potential to generate direct and indirect employment to the tune of 77000.<br />

At present, there are around 136 plastic processing industries in North East region consuming<br />

approximately 1.1 Lakhs TPA of polymer which is being sourced from outside the North East Region.<br />

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