Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL) has let a contract to Duncan Engineering Ltd. (DEL) for supply of valves as part of the operator’s project to expand production of petrochemicals at its 7.8-million tonne/year (tpy) refinery at Bina, Madya Pradesh.

As part the late-June contract award, DEL will deliver its critical on-off ball valves, Trunnion ball valves, and triple offset butterfly valves to support the refiner’s previously announced Bina petrochemicals and refinery expansion plan (BPREP) project, the service provider said in a regulatory filing to India’s BSE Ltd.

DEL said it will complete its scope of delivery under the contract—valued at 55.3 million rupees (about $582,000)—within 8 months of the June 24 order date.

This latest contract for the project follows BPCL’s 2023 approval of a 490-billion rupees (nearly $6 billion) investment for BPREP, which aims to expand nameplate processing capacity of the Bina refinery by 3.2 million tpy to 11 million tpy to primarily cater to feed requirements for the new petrochemical units’ production of polymer-grade ethylene and propylene to supply downstream polymer production units at the site.

In addition to boosting crude capacity, BPREP involves installation of a dual-feed cracker that will produce 1.2 million tpy of ethylene for new downstream units equipped to produce 1.15 million tpy combined of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE), 550,000 tpy of polypropylene, and aromatics such as benzene, toluene, and mixed xylenes.

In its latest annual report for fiscal year 2024-25, BPCL said that, as of Mar. 31, 2025, it had achieved an overall progress of 11% on BPREP, with the entire project scheduled for completion in May 2028 at a total investment of 433.67 billion rupees.