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GAIL assures full support to project

24 Sep '07
3 min read

The Feedstock Supply Agreements for the Rs. 5460 crore, 2,80,000 TPA gas cracker plant being set up at Lepetkata, Dibrugarh, Assam were signed in Dibrugarh.

The Gas Supply Agreement was signed between Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL), and Oil India Limited and Naphtha Supply Agreement was signed between BCPL and Numaligarh Refineries Limited (NRL).

The Feedstock Supply Agreements were signed by Shri R K Kashyap, Chief Operating Officer, BCPL, Shri N M Bora, Director (Operations), OIL and Shri D Chakraborty, Director (Technical), NRL in the presence of Shri B K Handique, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Chemicals, Shri Prithibi Majhi, Hon'ble Minister for Planning & Development, Government of Assam, and Dr. U D Choubey, CMD, GAIL and Chairman, BCPL.

Other dignitaries present on the occasion were Shri S Sonowal, Principal Secretary to the Government of Assam, Shri M.R. Pasrija, Chairman and Managing Director, OIL, Shri A K Purwaha, Director (Business Development), GAIL, Shri R. K Grover, Director (Projects), EIL and Shri S. Bhujbal, Director, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizer, Government of India along with other senior officials of the respective companies and the State Government.

The signing of Feedstock Supply Agreements is a major milestone in the execution of the project. Government of Assam has handed over 890 acres of land for the project and BCPL has acquired necessary Environmental and Pollution clearances.

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