| MAY 2019 Energising BPCL Kochi Refinery Page - 06 Page - 09 Page - 05 Page - 08 Page - 13 Page - 25 Page - 04 Page - 07 Page - 12 Page - 16 Page - 27 Page - 26 Page - 06 Page - 11 Page - 14 05 Highlights 18 People Black Cats perform the NSG exercise Retirement at Kochi Refinery Service Citation KR welcomes District Police Chief 25 Weather Shelter at IREP inaugurated ʽþxnùÒ 09 Safety BEò xɪÉÉ ºÉ´Éä®úÉ PSM Successfully implemented at CDU-2 {ªÉÉ®ú +Éè®ú JÉÖ¶ÉÒ KR sets new Safety record 27 aebmfw 12 JD Workshop _n\m-sebpw _o-^v Ìo¡pw 04 Highlights JD group meet to plan way forward 31 Art Gallery “Fruitful” greening at Kochi Refinery Prize winning Painting & Cartoon Independent Director visits BPCL STF, Kochi 14 Focus Feature Talentia : Where everyone is a star of Talentia Editor Jayesh Shah / ED (HR) ORIAL Associate Editor Kavitha Mathew/ HR EDIT Editorial Board George Thomas/ HR Vineeth M. Varghese/ HR Vinod T. Mathew/ HR Girija V. R./ HR Ganesan S./ ESE Chandrasekharan M./ Retd Sasidharan R./ Retd Resource Group Where everyone is a star Ankur K. Mishra/ Advisory Service Anurag Sarma/ IREP earty congrats to all of us on creating a new safety Bijoy K. I./ Maint landmark of 59 Million Accident Free man-hours Biju T. N./ Projects H Gopalakrishnan C. V./ HSE that we achieved on 8 April 2019. This is, no doubt, an Joseph Simon V. M./ Maint achievement attributed to the continued conviction and Krishnan T. B./ Maint Latha Kamath / HR (Hindi) commitment towards our personal and official discipline Manojkumar T. S./ Finance in safety, which is core for the well-being of our Refinery. Mohan Chandran K. C./ IS Muralikrishnadas V. G./ E&C For an organisation to remain in a vibrant state, Padmanabhan K./ Projects nourishment and growth of an individual’s talent is most Parameswer S./ HR Rajan C. K./ OM&S vital. Bringing out those unique talents makes them feel Ranjini Varma / CRS deeply connected with the organization. We are happy Shaji P. Stephen/ IREP Balan P / P&U that employees embraced the new initiative Talentia the Subramanian K. P./ P&U platform to recognize the hidden talents in Kochi Refinery; Suresh Babu/ OM&S in its first season itself. This unique initiative for employees Thulasidas N./ P&CS Varun M./ QC was introduced as an ice-breaking experiment to help Vino Varghese/ Manufacturing them re-look at their work and work-spaces differently. To Edited & published by re-discover the free flowing energies that energise them Executive Director (HR) and re-brand themselves as stars in their own respect, both at work and away from work. We bring you more Editorial correspondences [email protected] about the first talent hunt in the Refinery that started in December 2018 and concluded with the awards Design & Printed at ceremony in April 2019. St. Francis Press, St. Benedict’s Road, Kochi Email: [email protected] We are confident of identifying more stars, both professional achievers and personal champions as we Produced by Public Relations dedicate this issue of JwalaDhwani, to the Star in each BPCL Kochi Refinery one of us. Mailing address Warm regards Post Bag No. 2 Ambalamugal 682 302 Editor Ernakulam District Kerala, India. Tel: 0484 2722061 Fax: 0484 2720856 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. For private circulation only. MAY 2019 All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form only with the Vol. LV/05 written permission of the Editor. eJwalaDhwani available in ejournals at www.bharatpetroleum.in HIGHLIGHT “Fruitful” greening at Kochi Refinery ith care for the environment at priority, BPCL had planted 25000 trees at various locations inside WKochi Refinery has always endeavoured Kochi Refinery, stretching from the Coke yard to to be a green refinery. In its pursuit towards the the DHDS area. same, a Fruit Park was created in the heart of the As part of this initiative, approximately 2 acres Refinery as part of the BPCL Green Initiative. of land was developed towards the east side of The Fruit Park was formally inaugurated by Mr. P.S. CQCL. To be more precise, the area between the Ramachandran, Executive Director (Projects), CQC Lab and the Project Warehouse along the Kochi Refinery on 18 April 2019, in the presence periphery, which was earlier a dumping yard for of Mr. Prasad K Panicker, ED(KR) I/c, Mr. Murali IREP, till about a few months back. Around 1400 Madhavan P, ED(Refinery Operations), Mr. Suresh fruit bearing trees have been planted which John, CGM(Projects), Mr. Ajith Kumar K, CGM includes 650 Mango trees and 250 Chikku trees. (Polyols& BS VI) and Mr. Satheesh Kumar KP, GM(BS The park will go a long way in beautifying the VI Projects), senior officials and the Projects team. refinery even further and make it a place - no less Over the previous year, the Projects department than home for all stakeholders www.bharatpetroleum.in @KochiR /BPCLKochiRefinery BPCL KR Online HIGHLIGHTS Independent Director visits BPCL STF, Kochi ochi Refinery was pleased to welcome at the Refinery by Mr. Prasad K Panicker, ED(Kochi KMr. Vishal Sharma, Independent Director, Refinery) I/c. After addressing the senior leadership BPCL who visited the Shore Tank Farm facilities at of Kochi Refinery, the Independent Director also Puthuvypeen on 16 April 2019. He was received visited the sites of the new Petchem Project. Weather Shelter at IREP inaugurated r. PS Ramachandran, ED the Weather shelter amongst completion of the residual M(Projects) inaugurated the various other bigger tasks construction works associated the Field Personnel Weather undertaken. with IREP. Kudos to Project Civil shelter for GT/HRSG-3, 4, 5 on & Electrical groups for their The team shared that it is 27th April, 2019 in the august dedicated efforts to complete most fortunate that Executive presence of Mr. Jayesh Shah this facility within the short Director( Projects), inaugurated ED- HR, Mr. Murali Madhavan period of time from the date of the facility as it also marks the P ED- Refinery Operations, approval. Mr. Babu Joseph CGM- HSSE, Mr. Mohanlal A CGM – E & AS, Mr. Ajith Kumar K CGM – Projects- Polyols& BS VI & Mr. Mathew P Thomas GM- I/C –P&U. With this inauguration, a long cherished requirement of IREP Utility Operating group to have a weather shelter for GT/HRSG- 3, 4, 5 group has been fulfilled. The support from ED- Projects was instrumental and he was the guiding force in completing MAY 2019 5 HIGHLIGHT Black Cats perform the NSG exercise at Kochi Refinery National Security Guard Exercise on VIP the exercise including NSG commandos, State A hostage evacuation was carried out at Police Thunderbolts (Commandos), Kerala Police Kochi Refinery on 30 April 2019 to test the security Force, Kerala State F&S team and CISF. alertness within the Refinery. Brigadier Chikara, DIG (NSG), Colonel Sandeep, Driven by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India, Colonel Nitesh (Observer), Kochi City Police the NSG mission was carried out at several sensitive Commissioner Mr. Surendran IPS, DCPs, ACPs, installations like Kochi Refinery, CIAL and Special Group Commandant (CISF) were among the Economic Zone in Kochi, in a span of four days. senior officials present to witness the exercise. Around 285 uniformed personnel participated in Kerala Fire Force Fire trucks and Ambulance including the medical team from Kerala State were on standby at IREP gate. The briefing on the scenario was done at the Assembly area at P&CS Central Ware House. The Incident Command Post (ICP) was set up opposite MCR. A quad copter was flown over the Admin area to capture the live video stream. The dog squad included a trained Belgian Malinois assault dog in addition to two sniffer dogs. Office rooms were also opened up for the exercise that was scheduled from 6:00 pm on 30 April 2019 to 6:00 am the next day. KR welcomes District Police Chief r. Surendran IPS, District Police Chief, Kochi MCity visited Kochi Refinery on 21 March 2019. He was given a warm welcome by Executive Director (KR) I/c Mr. Prasad K Panicker. The District Police Chief interacted with the senior leadership and visited the Refinery. He also planted a sapling at the KR Eco park. www.bharatpetroleum.in @KochiR /BPCLKochiRefinery BPCL KR Online AWARDS KR Finance team bags award at BPCL Finance Meet ochi Refinery Finance team behalf of Kochi Refinery by Mr. the needs of the SBU; Best Kbagged top awards amongst N Vijayagopal Director Finance Creative and Innovative Team BPCL SBUs for the excellent and Mr. G Ananthakrishnan, for conversion of buy sell contribution in financial service CGM (Finance) Kochi Refinery arrangement with AP to job in 2017-18 under the leadership along with the KR Finance team. work, Award for Excellence of then CGM (Finance) Mr. N in Governance (Runner –Up) Vijayagopal. The awards were The awards won by Kochi for ensuring compliance with distributed at the Finance Refinery include Chairman’s various statutes and Procedures Meet at Kolkata in February, Award for Best Business Partner & Auditors Choice award for 2019 and were received on for proactively meeting compliance. Rajbhasha Rolling Trophy for BPCL Kochi Refinery PCL Kochi Refinery has won Mrs. Girija V R, Sr. Manager Trophy for scoring the highest Bthe prestigious Rajbhasha (OL), KR received the certificate points in the Joint Hindi Week Rolling Trophy for the year from Dr. R Sasidharan, Vice celebrations-2018 organised 2017-18 instituted by Kochi Chancellor, CUSAT, Kochi in a under the auspices of Kochi Town Official Language function held at BSNL Bhavan, Town Official Language Implementation Committee Ernakulam on 18 March Implementation Committee (PSUs) for the best Official 2019.