Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan laid the foundation stone of Common User Petroleum Facility (CUPF) at Sadashibpur in Dhenkanal district on Saturday.
Minister of State Petroleum and Natural Gas Rameswar Teli, MP Mahesh Sahoo, Hindol MLA Seemarani Nayak, besides CMD, BPCL K Padmakar, Director (Marketing), BPCL Arun Kumar Singh, ED (Retail), BPCLPS Ravi, ED(E&P), BPCL LR Jain and SLC cum CGM and State Head, IOCLSubhajit Ghosh were present. The facility will help reduce cost of frequent transportation of petroleum products from Paradip Terminal. Districts of Angul, Keonjhar, Deogarh and Dhenkanal will be major beneficiaries of the Rs 395 crore project which will be shared as per the mutually agreed, by all three oil marketing companies including IOCL, BPCL and HPCL in around 49.671 acres of land.Addressing on the occasion, Pradhan said the Common User Petroleum Facility will lead to reduce the transportation cost of petroleum materials in the regions of Central and North Odisha and it will be connected with railways line also.
Keeping in mind the industries like Tata Steel, Nalco, Jindal India Thermal Plant, NTPC, this CUPF has been conceptualised. Due to this project, Dhenkanal district will also have of other small industries and will be reason of employment generation for the local people, he added.