SEPTEMBER 2017 Energising BPCL Kochi Refinery
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SEPTEMBER 2017 Energising BPCL Kochi Refinery Kochi Refinery Wishes you the happiness of the season. Follow us on Twitter @ KochiRefinery Page - 13 Page - 18 Page - 06 Page - 09 Page - 21 Page - 26 Page - 07 Page - 24 Page - 31 Page - 19 Page - 20 Page - 25 INSIDE Cover design by Rajeev Raj/Mfg 15. People 25. aebmfw Service Citations AÀ¸W \ndhnð PohnXkar²n SEPTEMBER 2017 Transfers aebmfn HmWs¯ adópthm! 06. Milestone 17. Centre Point 29. Survey BPCL Director (Refineries) appreciates Independence Day Celebrations JwalaDhwani Readership Survey Kochi Refinery on the new Safety Record at Kochi Refinery 07. Highlights 19. Young Minds 30. My Corner Hon’ble Chief Minister of Kerala reviews biggest Cultural Fiesta at CR School Inizio foreign investment project at Kochi Refinery CR School celebrates 51st Foundation Day Quiz Bowl IREP : FCCU & NHT units commissioned 13. Travelogue 23. ʽþxnùÒ 32. Contest A journey to the Mighty Kailash {É®ú¨É ´ÉÒ®ú ªÉÉäMÉäxpù ˺ɽþ Bharatgas Kitchen Queen {Éä]ÅõÉäÊ±ÉªÉ¨É ¶É¤nùɴɱÉÒ Editor MV Prabhakaran Associate Editor Kavitha Mathew/ HR Editorial Board EDITORIAL George Thomas/ HR Girija V. R./ HR Ganesan S./ ESE Chandrasekharan M./ Retd Sasidharan R./Retd Sub Editors Onam is here! Latha Kamath /HR (Hindi) Anil Kumar C. S. / HR (Malayalam) Wishing you the peace and happiness of the Season! Resource Group Even as we bring you this special issue, the Onam celebrations Ankur K. Mishra/ Advisory Service across the Refinery are rushing to its final crescendo. Onam is indeed Anurag Sarma/ IREP a celebration of unity and togetherness and we are more than Bijoy K. I./ Maint Biju T. N./ Projects delighted to cover the mirth and joy of the festivities, in not just one – Gopalakrishnan C. V./ HSE but two special issues of JwalaDhwani. Joseph Simon V. M./ Maint Krishnan T. B./ Maint We invite you to sink into the childhood memories of the season with Manojkumar T. S./ Finance beautiful poems and stories shared by colleagues in this issue as we Mohan Chandran K. C./ IS wish you refreshing moments of Onam with your family and loved Muralikrishnadas V. G./ E&C Padmanabhan K./ Projects ones. We hope the season is a beginning of more promising days Parameswar S./ HR ahead. Rajan C. K./ OM&S Shaji P. Stephen/ IREP Let’s also celebrate the commissioning of the Petro FCCU, which is Sreeraj K. R./ P&U the mother unit producing feedstock for the petrochemical initiatives Subramanian K. P./ P&U of BPCL. Suresh Babu/ OM&S Thulasidas N./ P&CS The month that went by had prompted several new things to be Varun M./ QC added to our personal and official check-lists. TheOperation SAAF, our Vino Varghese/ Manufacturing Preethi Rajeev/ CR School Swachta mission, is a sincere attempt to ensure safety and cleanliness all around. A mission that loops everyone under the common goal of Edited & published by Swachhta at all facilities and derives its energy from our faith in Saaf Chief General Manager (HR) heyy, tho Safe heyy. Editorial correspondences [email protected] It is kudos to the entire Kochi Refinery team for crossing the 50 million accident free man-hours. The new benchmark shows the responsibility Design & Printed at that we have shouldered as one big team committed to safe working. St.Francis Press, St.Benedict’s Road, Kochi We are totally aware that each and every benchmark that we set is Email: [email protected] for us to improve further and take our company to greater heights. Let’s celebrate that together! Produced by Public Relations We are sure you are following Kochi Refinery on Twitter and you would BPCL Kochi Refinery have felt the ripples of the Onam magic that we are creating together Mailing address @KochiRefinery. Stay tuned for more colourful reports of Onam in the Post Bag No. 2 forthcoming special! Ambalamugal 682 302 Ernakulam District Warm regards, Kerala, India. Tel: 0484 2722061 Editor Fax: 0484 2720856 The views expressed in JwalaDhwani are not necessarily those of the management Member, Association of Business Communicators of India JwalaDhwani estd. in 1966 as CRL Newsletter SEPT 2017 For private circulation only Vol.Lll/9 All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form only with the written permission of the editor. BPCL Director (Refineries) appreciates Kochi Refinery on the new Safety Record rossing a milestone like 50 In his key note address, D(R) size and complexities and this Cmillion accident free man- expressed that the new safety takes our responsibilities also hours at a 24 x 7, and 365 days record should be seen as the to a higher level, he reminded operating unit like Kochi Refinery starting point of more records while stressing on the all- is no easy task. It requires to follow and also stressed on round focus we give to safety, absolute, total and dedicated the need for according highest right from near miss reports to commitment from each and attention to Process Safety in behavioural aspects, personal every employee. the days to come. protection and process safety. Mr. C. K. Soman, Chief General On the occasion of crossing the KR crossed the 10 million mark Manager (Operations) I/c 50 million accident free man- on 12 July 2008, the 20 million welcomed the gathering. hours, a new safety record set mark on 20 June 2010, 30 million Mr. N. Manohar Rao, ED(HSSE by KR, a special ceremony on 25 Feb 2013 and 40 million and Bio Fuel), BPCL, Mr. was convened at the New on 22 June 2015. And after 11 K. Padmakar, ED(HRD), BPCL Fire Station of BPCL Kochi years, 6 months and 24 days, on and Mr. P.S. Ramachandran, Refinery, that was attended by 23 July 2017, BPCL Kochi Refinery ED(Projects) felicitated KR a large section of employees, crossed the 50 million mark. on the new benchmark and senior management, invitees Mr. K. D. Damien Gracious, from BUs and business As Executive Director (KR) I/c, Chief General Manager (HSE) associates. Director (Refineries) Mr. Prasad Panicker expressed proposed the vote of thanks. Mr. R.Ramachandran appreciated in his presidential address, the commitment and safety this 4223 days of safety Earlier, at the beginning of the performance of Kochi Refinery conscious living, working and ceremony, Director (Refineries) by presenting a token of collaborating is Kochi Refinery’s hoisted the safety flag and the recognition for Kochi Refinery to toast to Safety First, Safety Must. safety pledge was administered Mr. Prasad K. Panicker ED(KR). Kochi Refinery has grown in by Mr. A. K. Das, (DGM Fire & Safety), I/c. Congratulations to team Kochi Refinery on crossing the safety milestone of 50 million accident free man-hours, Let us pledge to set new benchmarks by re- dedicating ourselves to Safety First, Safety Must, everyday. www.bharatpetroleum.in @KochiRefinery HIGHLIGHTS Hon’ble Chief Minister of Kerala reviews biggest foreign investment project at Kochi Refinery on’ble Chief Minister of 1 August. Air Products is one of investment in the Facilities HKerala, Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan the major global suppliers of at Kochi is about 400 Million reviewed the industrial gas gases like Oxygen, Nitrogen and Dollars and is one of the largest production project of Air Argon which find application Foreign Direct Investments in Products which is the largest in industries and medicine. Air Kerala. From Air Products were foreign investment in the State Products has installed a large present Mr. Richard J. Boocock, that has come up as part of facility at Kochi on a Build President, Air Products PLC Integrated Refinery Expansion Own Operate (BOO) basis for UK, and Mr. Thng Hui Hong, Project of Bharat Petroleum the supply of industrial gas General Manager, Air Products Corporation Limited at Kochi requirements of BPCL Kochi India. From BPCL were present Refinery. Refinery’s Integrated Refinery Mr. Prasad K. Panicker, Executive Expansion Project (IREP). Director (Kochi Refinery), He along with Mr. Paul Antony, Mr. George Paul, Chief General IAS Additional Chief Secretary, Supply to IREP has commenced Manager (Project Technical), Industries & Power, held from March 2017. The Mr. M. V. Prabhakaran, Chief discussions with the senior requirement of Synthesis Gas General Manager (HR) and executives of Air Products and for the petrochemical venture Mr. S. Somashekhar, Chief BPCL Kochi Refinery at a meeting of the refinery would also be General Manager (Advisory held at Thiruvananthapuram on supplied by Air Products. The Engineering). BPCL issues bonus shares to Govt of Kerala Power) & Board Member, BPCL, Mr. S. Somasekhar, CGM (Advisory Engg), Mr. M.V. Prabhakaran, CGM (HR), Mr. M.V. Jayarajan, Private Secretary to CM(GoK) and Mr. Vinod T. Mathew, Asst. Mgr (PR) at the State Capital, Thiruvananthapuram today. BPCL announced bonus shares in the ratio of 1:2 and xecutive Director (I/c) Minister of Kerala, Mr. Pinarayi accordingly, Governor of Kerala EKochi Refinery, Mr. Prasad Vijayan in the presence of Mr. being the shareholder has been K. Panicker hands over BPCL Paul Antony IAS, Additional allotted 62,22,222 Bonus shares. bonus shares to Hon’ble Chief Chief Secretary (Industries & SEPTEMBER 2017 7 FCCU & NHT units commissioned ugust was an eventful will be used for production and the feed cut is expected Amonth for Team IREP. of value added Niche shortly. Petrochemicals. One of the largest units of The NHT-ISOM unit is a revamp IREP, the 2.2 MMTPA Petro The HP and LP flare headers of project with a capacity of 0.36 Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit PFCCU were de-blinded on 10 MMTPA capacity. UOP is the (Petro FCCU) was successfully August and subsequently the licensor for the unit. The project commissioned by cutting in feed cut on 24 August.