en.Wedoany.com Reported - Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL) has awarded a valve supply contract to Duncan Engineering Ltd. (DEL) for its petrochemical production expansion project at the 7.8 million tonnes per year refinery in Bina, Madhya Pradesh.

Under the contract signed in late June, DEL will supply critical switching ball valves, trunnion-mounted ball valves, and triple-offset butterfly valves to support the refiner's Bina Petrochemicals and Refinery Expansion Plan (BPREP). The service provider confirmed the news in a regulatory filing submitted to BSE Ltd. in Mumbai, India.

DEL stated that it will complete the contract delivery scope within eight months from the order date (June 24), with the contract valued at INR 55.3 million (approximately USD 582,000).

This contract is the latest development following BPCL's approval of an investment of INR 490 billion (nearly USD 6 billion) in BPREP in 2023. The expansion plan aims to increase the nominal processing capacity of the Bina refinery by 3.2 million tonnes per year to 11 million tonnes per year, primarily to meet the feedstock demand for polymer-grade ethylene and propylene from new petrochemical units, supplying downstream polymer production facilities on site.

In addition to increasing crude processing capacity, BPREP includes the installation of a dual-feed cracker capable of producing 1.2 million tonnes of ethylene per year. This ethylene will be supplied to new downstream units, which together can produce 1.15 million tonnes per year of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE), 550,000 tonnes per year of polypropylene, as well as aromatics such as benzene, toluene, and mixed xylenes.

In its latest annual report for the 2024-25 fiscal year, BPCL stated that as of March 31, 2025, the overall progress of BPREP had reached 11%, with the entire project scheduled for completion in May 2028 at a total investment of INR 433.67 billion.