The BPCL Kochi Refinery, left on its excursion in 1966 with a limit of 50,000 barrels for each day. In the past known as Cochin Refineries Limited, the refinery was initially settled as a joint wander as a team with Phillips Petroleum Corporation, USA. It was later renamed as Kochi Refineries Limited, and today, it is a forefront substance as a unit of the Fortune 500 Company.

Kochi Refinery is situated at Ambalamugal, close Kochi in Kerala, and is one of the two Refineries of BPCL, by and by having an unrefined petroleum refining limit of 9.5 Million Metric Tons for every Annum (MMTPA). The item arrangement of the 190,000 barrels for every day refinery today incorporates petrochemical feedstocks and claim to fame items notwithstanding its scope of value fills.

The results of this fuel based refinery incorporate Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Naphtha, Motor Spirit, Kerosene, Aviation Turbine Fuel, High Speed Diesel, Fuel Oils and Asphalt. Claim to fame items for the local markets incorporate Benzene, Toluene, Propylene, Special Boiling Point Spirit, Mineral Turpentine Oil, Sulfur and Hydrogen.

The BPCL Kochi Refinery has been recertified for the very pined for Integrated Management System (IMS) by M/s Bureau Veritas Certification for having consented to the necessities of best models and practices in the ranges of Quality Management, Environment Management and Occupational Safety and Health Management. By temperance of this, KR is confirmed to Quality Management System - ISO 9001:2008, Environment Management System - ISO 14001:2004 and Occupational Health and Safety Management System - OHSAS 18001:2007.

With the renowned Crude Oil receipt offices comprising of Single Point Mooring (SPM) and related shore tank cultivate set up since December 2007, the Kochi refinery is prepared to get raw petroleum in Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs). This office helps the refinery in decreasing the cargo charges, all things considered, well beyond expanding adaptability in raw petroleum determination. This, consequently, is a noteworthy foundation office to quicken the future development.

The refinery has offices to empty items to the expending focuses through street, rail andships through pipelines. All the significant enterprises in the region are associated with the refinery for item receipt. The BPCL establishment at Irumpanam is associated with the refinery through pipelines and is the real item appropriation focal point of the refinery. Petronet CCK, a joint wander organization of BPCL takes care of the 300 km long pipeline that associates the refinery to different utilization focuses in Tamil Nadu, for example, Coimbatore and Karur.

The Capacity Expansion cum Modernisation Project (Phase–II), has been effectively finished and now Kochi Refinery has a refining limit of 9.5 MMTPA and could create auto-powers fitting in with Euro-III and incompletely Euro-IV details.

The Refinery has by and by setting out on the Integrated Refinery Expansion Project which would build the refining limit of KR from 9.5 MMTPA to 15.5 MMTPA and enhance the auto-fuel quality to Euro-IV/V levels to take care of the developing demand of oil based commodities in Indian market. This would likewise overhaul the refinery buildup stream to esteem included distillates and make cooperative energy for future enhancement into esteem included petrochemical items.

Kochi Refinery has likewise started the Propylene Derivative Petrochemical Project which would help KR to deliver esteem included petrochemical items.