CPCL has cut water footprint by 20% in two years, says MD H. Shankar

In the past 2 years, our h2o footprint — a beardown indicator of the efficiencies we person built into our systems — has reduced by much than 20%, H. Shankar, Managing Director of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL), said. “From the precise beginning, we person been the lone refinery that has not utilized immoderate groundwater for our requirements,” helium said during a fireside chat with N. Ravi Kumar, Senior Deputy Editor, The Hindu, astatine The Hindu Sustainability Summit 2025.

“Our full h2o request is fulfilled done the desalination and sewage reclamation plants we person acceptable up,” helium said and added: “We are a zero caller h2o consuming refinery.”

Highlighting the firm’s retail business, Mr. Shankar said: “Retail outlet is an absorbing and challenging business; arsenic of now, we person not been astatine the forefront of nationalist interface. Retail brings america straight to the public.” CPCL has got 300 licences now, helium said, adding: “We volition commencement comissioning these facilities by extremity of this year.”

Giving an update connected the Nagapattinam refinery, Mr. Shankar said that the full onshore parcel has been acquired. “We mean to physique a refinery-cum-petro chemic analyzable there. There is simply a immense request for petrochemicals successful Tamil Nadu. There are precise fewer players producing petrochemicals,” helium said.

He pointed retired that CPCL was 1 of the aboriginal birds to instrumentality BS-IV (Bharat Stage 4) and BS-VI (Bharat Stage 6) people fuels. “Our refinery rolled retired these products mode up of time.” Mr. Shankar said that the steadfast has spent ₹8,000 crore to ₹10,000 crore connected prime improvement.

The Hindu Sustainability Summit 2025 is presented by Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL) and co-presented by Tamil Nadu Green Climate Company (TNGCC). The Sustainability Partner is Navin’s and the Associate Partner is NLC India Limited. The Green Partner for the lawsuit is Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Television Partner Puthiya Thalaimurai. While the Industry Partner is Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Knowledge Partner is Sustainable Energy and Environment Council (SEEC). The Digital News Partner for the lawsuit is The Federal.