Omera LP Gas and Omera Cylinders have been officially launched in Bangladesh. Mr. Nasrul Hamid, MP, The State Minister of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources formally inaugurated the products as the Chief Guest at an event held in Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden on 22 April 2015.
Among others Mr. Md. Abubakar Siddique, Secretary of Energy and Mineral Resources Division and Chairman of OPL & OCL and Mr. A. M. Badrudduja, Chairman of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) were present as Special Guests.
Considering the growing demand of customers, Omera Petroleum Limited (OPL), a subsidiary of MJL Bangladesh Ltd., has started LPG venture in Bangladesh with utmost commitment of convenience of availability, functionality and safety. To ensure uninterrupted distribution throughout the country, OPL has made robust investment for European Standards bottling and storage facilities in Mongla, Ghorashal, Bogura and Mirasharai with consolidated capacity of 1 lakh metric ton. OPL has a competitive edge of addressing the growing demand as it has the largest bottling & storage complex in Bangladesh. Also using river-route OPL has significantly invested in building a LPG carrying Barge named as “Omera Princess” based on European & Japanese technologies to ensure uninterrupted distribution channel.
To ensure state of the art product quality, Omera Petroleum Limited has its own cylinder manufacturing factory named as ”Omera Cylinders Limited (OCL)”, a subsidiary of MJL Bangladesh Ltd., in Habiganj. OCL maintains the highest international quality control standard DOT4BA 240 and DOT4BW 240 for its cylinders which is approved by the Explosive Bureau of the Government of Bangladesh. The factory has a capacity of 500,000 cylinders’ production annually. The LPG cylinders will be available in three different sizes with the capacity of 5.5 kg, 12 kg and 35 kg and in two different colors of Glossy Lemon Yellow and Glossy Window Grey.
The Chairman of East Coast Group and Director of OPL & OCL Azam J Chowdhury, Managing Director of BB Energy (Gulf) DMCC Khaled Bassatne, Director of OPL Professor Dr. Mohammad Tamim were also present at the event along with, CEO of OPL Ishtiaq Ahmed and CEO of OCL S M Oniket Selim.
