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Reliance Industries declares 30% higher refinery capacity at Jamnagar plant

Reliance Industries has declared a 30% increase in the installed capacity of its export-focused oil refinery in the special economic zone in Gujarat's Jamnagar

Reliance Industries has been consistently operating its export-oriented refinery at a rate higher than the nameplate capacity. AFPPremium
Reliance Industries has been consistently operating its export-oriented refinery at a rate higher than the nameplate capacity. AFP

New Delhi: India’s Reliance Industries has declared a 30% increase in the installed capacity of its export-focused oil refinery, a government report showed, increasing the size the world’s largest refinery complex.

India’s Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell (PPAC) in its October report showed 35.2 million tonnes a year as the installed capacity of Reliance’s refinery in the special economic zone (SEZ) at Jamnagar, in northwest India. That is up from 27 million tonnes, or 540,000 barrels per day (bpd), as of 1 April that PPAC reported in an August 2017 report.

The new capacity is the equivalent of 704,000 bpd of crude processing.

Reliance built its first refinery at Jamnagar with an installed capacity of 660,000 bpd in 1999. This refinery sells most of its fuels in the local market. The SEZ plant was added in 2008 and turned the entire Jamnagar complex into the world’s largest oil processing site.

Two sources familiar with the matter confirmed that Reliance has declared the increased SEZ capacity, which they said the company attributed to debottlenecking, or a by streamlining the processes at the plant.

“They have declared enhanced capacity," said one of the sources by telephone, without provided details on how the company raised the capacity.

Reliance has been consistently operating its export-oriented refinery at a rate higher than the nameplate capacity

Reliance had no immediate comment on the increase when contacted by Reuters.

Although most of the products from the SEZ plant are meant for overseas market, some like cooking gas are sold in local markets.

Reliance’s refineries are among the most complex in the world and have facilities that can maximize the production of diesel and gasoline from so-called heavy, or higher density, crude oil that typically sells for less than other crude grades.

Reliance, in a presentation to India’s Center for High Technology (CHT), said it wanted to raise the capacity of its Jamnagar complex to 100 million tonnes a year by 2030, sources last year told Reuters.

CHT is a unit of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas that evaluates projects and assesses their technological requirements. Reuters.

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Published: 16 Jan 2018, 05:28 PM IST
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