EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) is a premier public sector company in the Oil & Gas sector and is engaged in the business of refining and retailing of petroleum products including LPG in the country. It is the leading Indian corporate in the Fortune “Global 500’ listing. IOCL is having about 129 POL Depot/Terminals, 91 LPG Bottling Plants which serve every nook and corner of the country. Indane (the trade name of LPG of IOCL) is supplied to the consumers through a network of about 5,456 distributors (51.8% of the industry).The growth in demand of LPG for domestic purpose is increasing at a rapid pace. To improve safety standards in Petroleum Industry, Ministry constituted OISD which establishes standards/practices to be followed in petroleum sector from time to time. The growth in demand of LPG for domestic purpose is increasing at a rapid pace everywhere in the country. In order to overcome increasing LPG demand, a bottling plant is very much necessary to be established to cater LPG to the customers and ensure that there would not be a shortfall in supplies and customers will not suffer for LPG refills on any account. To cope-up with the increasing demand of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in future due to increase in its domestic use, Public Sector Oil Companies are setting up new bottling plants as well as augmenting their existing capacities. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) currently has 89 bottling plants in the country to do such bottling. The market penetration of LPG in the state of Meghalaya having population about 30 lakh as per census 2011 is only 22.8%. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) scheme has been initiated in the state w.e.f. 19.06.2017 which will give boost to LPG enrolments in the state and under this scheme the LPG demand is expected to rise steeply in near future. Presently, there is no bottling plant located in the state. The packed LPG demand is met from the bottling plants at Sarpara, North Guwahati and Dhaligaon located in state of Assam. In order to meet the increasing demand, there is requirement of setting up a LPG bottling Plant in the state close to the main demand center i.e. Shillong, the proposed bottling plant will be coming up in dismantled POL depot of Indian oil (Assam oil) situated at Umium(Shillong), Ri-Bhoi, Meghalaya where basic infrasture are available including roads, power and water. The proposed plant will be having storage capacity of 3 x 150 MT MSV and bottling capacity of 60,000 MTPA. This facility will cover East Khasi Hills, West Khasi Hills, Ribhoi, South West Khasi Hills, East Jayantia Hills and West Jayantia Hills and LPG will be transported to plant from Guwahati Refinery, NRL, North Guwahati TSP, Haldia and Bongaigaon Refinery through bulk tankers.