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Celebrations galore NOV 2018 Energising BPCL Kochi Refinery Team Kochi Refinery privileged to interact with the senior leadership of BPCL led by Mr.D Rajkumar, C&MD at the 10th edition of TOWN HALL organized on 30 October 2018. Mr. R Ramachandran, D(R), Mr. K Padmakar, D(HR), Mr. N Vijayagopal, D(F) designate and Mr. Ajay Kumar, MD(BPRL) were present at this unique programme. Team Kochi Refinery privileged to interact with the senior leadership of BPCL led by Mr.D Rajkumar, C&MD at the 10th edition of TOWN HALL organized on 30 October 2018. Mr. R Ramachandran, D(R), Mr. K Padmakar, D(HR), Mr. N Vijayagopal, D(F) designate and Mr. Ajay Kumar, MD(BPRL) were present at this unique programme. Page - 11 Page - 22 Page - 07 Page - 10 Page - 14 Page - 27 C& MD’s Message Page - 06 Page - 09 Page - 13 Page - 26 Page - 31 Page - 0807 Page - 12 Page - 24 Page - 30 Page - 29 12 Digital KR 24 Young Minds Plant Dashboard 360 on mobile launched at Release of Cyber Policy for schools Kochi Refinery as part of project BIKOS Process Safety Management (PSM) web-portal goes live 26 ʽþxnùÒ Advisory Service Managment takes the eWay |ÉEÞòÊiÉ EòÉ JÉä±É, ¨ÉÉxÉ´É EòÒ ºÉÒJÉ at Kochi Refinery {ªÉÉ®ú Project Monitoring App now on Mobile 27 aebmfw Portable Detector Tracking system launched \nf.... at Kochi Refinery taLw 15 Project Highlights 29 Regional 06 Message PDA Extractor stands tall at PDPP C&MD’s message 16 Celebrations Galore 30 Celebration 07 Highlights BPCL Senior Leadership visits Kochi Refinery Ayudha Pooja at Kochi Refinery C&MD launches “Food Grade Quality - Hexane”, a new product from Kochi Refinery, 20 People Retirement BPCL Kochi Refinery receives “Own Crude” Service Citation Editor Jayesh Shah / ED (HR) Associate Editor Kavitha Mathew/ HR EDITORIAL Editorial Board George Thomas/ HR Vineeth M. Varghese/ HR Celebrations galore Vinod T. Mathew/ HR Girija V. R./ HR he month that went by was action packed with many launches Ganesan S./ ESE Chandrasekharan M./ Retd Tand great new beginnings at Kochi Refinery. The BPCL Board had Sasidharan R./ Retd its first Board Meeting in Kumarakom and they also took time to spend Resource Group an entire day with team KR. We are fortunate that at a special edition Ankur K. Mishra/ Advisory Service of the Town Hall, the unique platform for leaders to interact with Anurag Sarma/ IREP Bijoy K. I./ Maint Kochrefiners, the top team led by our C&MD Mr. D Rajkumar himself, Biju T. N./ Projects energized us with the absolute micro-insights of the future plans of Gopalakrishnan C. V./ HSE Joseph Simon V. M./ Maint BPCL. Krishnan T. B./ Maint Latha Kamath / HR (Hindi) This is in close continuation to the appreciation we received from the Manojkumar T. S./ Finance Mohan Chandran K. C./ IS Standing Committee of Parliament for Petroleum & Natural Gas that Muralikrishnadas V. G./ E&C unanimously applauded Kochi Refinery on the top-class performance Padmanabhan K./ Projects Parameswer S./ HR delivered non-stop. Rajan C. K./ OM&S Ranjini Varma / CRS Joining the digitization drive across the Corporation, KR has launched Sajeevan U.T. / HR various portals to ease online monitoring and operations. These efforts Shaji P. Stephen/ IREP Sreeraj K. R./ P&U are clearly towards transforming KR into a 100% e-Office as we prepare Subramanian K. P./ P&U ourselves for global big data challenges. Suresh Babu/ OM&S Thulasidas N./ P&CS We have also initiated branding revamps across KR aiming at an all- Varun M./ QC Vino Varghese/ Manufacturing new visual identity for the biggest Refinery of BPCL. To start with we Edited & published by have introduced the ever energizing waves of BPCL on the Refinery Executive Director (HR) fascia at the main entrance with a complete facelift including a Editorial correspondences lush garden of seasonal blooms at the main admin-block. To enjoy [email protected] the transformations at KR that we have to bring in together, I invite Design & Printed at employees once again to take a closer look at brand Kochi Refinery St.Francis Press, and send us your suggestions and feedback in the Know Your Refinery St.Benedict’s Road, Kochi Email: [email protected] online survey that will be open on KR Intralink up to 30 December 2018. Produced by In this sparkling Diwali issue, we bring you all about the new launches Public Relations BPCL Kochi Refinery and celebrations with the promise that together, we have many, many more still to go. Mailing address Post Bag No. 2 Wishing you all the happiness of the festive seasons that follow one Ambalamugal 682 302 Ernakulam District after the other. Kerala, India. Tel: 0484 2722061 Warmly Fax: 0484 2720856 Editor The views expressed in JwalaDhwani are not necessarily those of the manage- ment. Member Association of Business Communicators of India. JwalaDhwani estd. in 1966 as CRL Newsletter. NOV 2018 For private circulation only. All rights reserved. Vol. LllI/11 Reproduction in any form only with the written permission of the Editor. eJawalaDhwani awailable on ejournals at www.bharatpetroleum.in “May this Diwali bless us all with biright sparkles of contentment, may we all attain inner illumination and may the supreme light of lights make us Message from attain the inexhaustible spiritual Chairman & wealth of the Self!” Managing Dircetor Dear Friends, I write to you today on the auspicious occasion of Diwali! The festival of lights has always been a harbinger of joy and prosperity. And this year is no different. It is with great pride that I share with you that BPCL is once again on the verge of scoring an “Excellent” MOU rating, maintaining is record of outstanding ratings. BPCL has been able to consistently achieve such extraordinary ratings only due to the persistent hard-work and sincere commitment of the entire BPCL family. My heartiest congratulations to Team BPCL!! I am confident that going forward we shall continue to relentlessly chase our dreams and emerge winners in all facets of business. May this Diwali bless us all with bright sparkles of contentment, may we all attain inner illumination and may the supreme light of lights make us attain the inexhaustible spiritual wealth of the Self! Wishing you and families a very happy, safe and prosperous Diwali! D Rajkumar HIGHLIGHTS C&MD launches “Food Grade Quality - Hexane”, a new product from Kochi Refinery, ith the primary aim Refinery is producing a ‘Food tonnes per year. In the product Wto promoting agro- Grade Quality’ product. FGQ portfolio at Kochi Refinery, FGQ processing, BPCL Kochi Refinery Hexane is a light distillate Hexane is 21st in line. has launched the speciality produced from special cut “This is a landmark in the history product Food Grade Quality Naphtha where the Hexane of Kochi Refinery since we are Hexane (FGQ Hexane) that rich stream is extracted and now producing a food grade could turn out to be a boon purified to meet the required quality product. This would help for the agricultural sector of specification. This product the food processing industry Southern India. is mainly used as solvent in and the farming community. Mr. D Rajkumar, Chairman the solvent extraction units Kochi Refinery had always tried & Managing Director, BPCL, for spices and vegetable oil. to promote farming based flagged off the first truck carrying This is also used by drug and industries in South India. In FG Hexane in the presence of pharmaceutical industry and the late 1990s, Kochi Refinery Mr. R Ramachandran, Director also as solvent in other specialty had developed the Natural (Refineries), Mr. N Vijayagopal, applications. Much of FGQ Rubber Modified Bitumen Director (Finance) designate, Hexane used in the country is (NRMB) through its Research & Mr. Prasad K Panicker, imported and therefore would Development Center and had Executive Director (Kochi be helpful to the Make In India provided an alternative scope Refinery) i/c, Mr. Sharad initiatives. for rubber which is increasingly cultivated in Sothern India. Sharma, Executive Director FGQ Hexane is being produced Thereafter, NRMB has been (Industrial & Commercial), in the Isomerization unit of Kochi a prime product of KR which Mr. P S Ramachandran, Executive Refinery which came up as helped in laying better roads. Director (Projects), KR and part of the Integrated Refinery Launching of FG Hexane is a Mr. Jayesh Shah, Executive Expansion Project (IREP). Kochi similar kind of effort,” shared Director (HR), KR. Refinery currently has the Mr. Prasad K Panicker, ED (Kochi This is the first time that Kochi capacity to produce 5000 Refinery). NOV 2018 7 HIGHLIGHTS Team Kochi Refinery energised to welcome C&MD and Board of Directors eam Kochi Refinery was Mr. Prasad K Panicker, senior leadership visited Kochi Tdelighted to receive our ED I/c (Kochi Refinery), Refinery on 30 October 2018. respected Chairman Mr. P S Ramachandran, Mr. Rajkumar lit the traditional & Managing Director, ED (Projects), Mr. Jayesh lamp along with the Board Mr. D Rajkumar and Board Shah, ED(HR) and Mr. Murali Members to mark the auspicious members, Mr. R Ramachandran, Madhavan P, CGM(Operations) beginning of a very eventful day Director (Refineries) and extended a very warm welcome at KR. Mr. K Padmakar, Director to the senior leadership of BPCL C&MD shared insights into the (Human Resources), along with on their maiden visit as a team to future plans of BPCL at the Mr. N Vijayagopal, Director KR after the first Board Meeting special edition of Town Hall , the (Finance) designate and in Kerala. The Board meeting unique platform for leaders to Mr. Ajay Kumar, Managing was convened in Kumarakom interact with Kochrefiners.