"Out of these, 250 each will be in North and West zones 200 in South and 100 in East zone," BPCL executive director (retail) Sanjay Krishnamurti said launching the company's high-octane petrol, Speed 97, for high-end cars in one of its outlets in Bangalore.
"Last three years have seen 33 per cent capacity expansion from 2,000 retail outlets in 2003 to 6,600 at present. Our focus now will be on consolidating the new retail outlets," he said.
BPCL, which has been a forerunner in innovative technologies, came up with this high-octane petrol for high-performance cars, which were making do with the available petrol because of lack of such fuel resulting in performance lower than that designed, he said.
Speed 97 has specially designed components for "high-performance engines like that in Opel Astra, Hyundai Accent, Palio to Porsche, Mercedes Benz and Ferrari," he said.
"Out of the 55 BPCL outlets in Bangalore, the fuel already available in 10 will be extended to another four outlets," Krishnamurti said, adding that 21 cities across the country are being targeted for this fuel.
The product now available in select outlets in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore will be extended to Coimbatore, Hyderabad and Cochin.
"We are looking at Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Jamshedpur where a number of high-end cars are used," he added.
