Mumbai : Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a Fortune Global 500 company and a Maharatna PSU, has expanded Bharatgas Lite ZIP, its premium LPG offering, to 100 cities across India, significantly widening the reach of its convenience-led LPG proposition.
The 100-city rollout covers the following markets, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
Bharatgas Lite ZIP was launched in Mumbai on July 18, 2026 by the Chairman & Managing Director, BPCL, in the presence of the Director (Marketing), BPCL, and the LPG team. The offering has since been progressively rolled out across markets and is now available across 100 cities, taking its proposition to a much larger and diverse consumer base across the country.
The expansion strengthens BPCL’s focus on evolving the LPG experience around the changing needs of consumers. With the 100-city rollout, Bharatgas Lite ZIP brings together a lighter composite cylinder with services designed around easier access and faster delivery, offering consumers greater convenience across key stages of their LPG journey.
Commenting on this milestone, Shri Sanjay Khanna, Chairman & Managing Director, BPCL, said, “Bharatgas Lite ZIP reflects our commitment to making LPG access simpler, faster and more convenient for consumers. By combining the lightweight composite cylinder with Instant New Connection and Express Delivery, we are offering a differentiated customer experience that meets the needs of today’s evolving lifestyles. I would also like to thank our distributor partners for their unwavering support and dedication, particularly during the recent supply challenges, which has been instrumental in ensuring uninterrupted service to consumers across the country.”
Taking Convenience to Consumers at Scale
The expansion to 100 cities gives Bharatgas Lite ZIP a significantly wider footprint, allowing BPCL to take its premium LPG proposition to consumers across a broad range of urban markets. The rollout is aimed at making the offering accessible to a larger audience while responding to the growing expectation for greater convenience and ease in everyday services.
Bharatgas Lite ZIP combines Instant New Connection and Express Delivery with the Bharatgas Lite composite cylinder. Instant New Connection enables customers to obtain a new LPG connection through a simplified onboarding process, while Express Delivery is designed to provide faster delivery of LPG cylinders.
The Bharatgas Lite composite cylinder is lightweight, corrosion-free and transparent, allowing consumers to view LPG levels. It also offers enhanced safety, contemporary design and greater ease of handling. These features are complemented by the service proposition, bringing together product design and customer convenience within the same offering.
Designed for today’s changing lifestyles, Bharatgas Lite ZIP is particularly suited to working professionals, students, young families and the floating population. For consumers who may value ease of handling, quicker access and greater flexibility, the offering provides an alternative LPG experience built around these everyday requirements.
The 100-city expansion is an important step in BPCL’s efforts to broaden its LPG portfolio and take customer-focused offerings to a wider consumer base. By combining a lightweight cylinder with simpler access and faster delivery, Bharatgas Lite ZIP brings together multiple aspects of the LPG experience in a proposition designed for the needs of today’s consumers.
With Bharatgas Lite ZIP now available across 100 cities, BPCL continues to strengthen its focus on convenience, speed and ease of use, while taking its LPG offering to an increasingly wider audience across India.
About Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL):
Fortune Global 500 Company, Bharat Petroleum is the second largest Indian Oil Marketing Company and one of the integrated energy companies in India, engaged in refining of crude oil and marketing of petroleum products, with presence in the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. The company attained the coveted Maharatna status, joining the club of companies having greater operational & financial autonomy.
Bharat Petroleum’s Refineries at Mumbai, Kochi and Bina have a combined refining capacity of around 35.3 MMTPA. Its marketing infrastructure includes a network of installations, depots, fuel stations, aviation service stations and LPG distributors. Its distribution network comprises over 25,300+ Fuel Stations, over 1000+ CNG stations, over 6,250+ LPG distributorships, 440+ Lubes distributorships, 81 POL storage locations, 56 LPG Bottling Plants, 81 Aviation Service Stations, 5 Lube blending plants and 6 cross-country pipelines.
Bharat Petroleum is integrating its strategy, investments, environmental and social ambitions to move towards a sustainable planet. The company has Electric vehicle charging stations at 6800+ Fuel Stations. With a focus on sustainable solutions, the company is developing an ecosystem and a road-map to become a Net Zero Energy Company by 2040, in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. Bharat Petroleum has been partnering communities by supporting several initiatives connected primarily in the areas of education, water conservation, skill development, health, community development, capacity building and employee volunteering. With ‘Energising Lives’ as its core purpose, Bharat Petroleum’s vision is to be an admired global energy company leveraging talent, innovation & technology.
