BPCL inks pact for ATF pipeline to Hyderabad airport

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) volition conception a dedicated aviation turbine substance (ATF) pipeline from its Malkapur installation to the substance workplace astatine GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL).

BPCL and GHIAL connected Tuesday signed an agreement, for the facility, which the State-owned refiner described arsenic a strategical collaboration aimed astatine ensuring reliable, businesslike and environmentally sustainable substance proviso to 1 of India’s fastest-growing airports. The projected ATF pipeline volition span implicit 56 kilometres, including astir 1 km wrong the airdrome premises.

Once operational, it volition relation connected a communal bearer basis, facilitating seamless and businesslike proscription of aviation substance portion importantly reducing dependence connected road-based substance logistics, BPCL said successful a release.

“This dedicated ATF pipeline reinforces our continued committedness to gathering robust, future-ready vigor infrastructure portion actively reducing c emissions by minimising roadworthy proscription of fuel,” said Sanjeev Kumar, concern head-Aviation.

GHIAL CEO Pradeep Panicker said the concern with BPCL connected the improvement of a common-use substance proscription pipeline aligns intimately with the company’s imaginativeness of delivering cost-efficient and sustainable solutions.

CGM-Marketing (Aviation) of BPCL Sujit Kumar and main commercialized serviceman of GHIAL Ashish Kumar signed the agreement.