Jamnagar Refinery
The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries Limited in Jamnagar, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of 661,000 barrels per day (105,100 m3/d). It is the largest greenfield refinery in the world.
Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL) on 25th December 2008 announced the commissioning of its refinery in a Special Economic Zone at Jamnagar, Gujarat in India. With the completion of the RPL refinery, Jamnagar has emerged as the ‘Refining Hub of the World’ with the largest refining complex with an aggregate refining capacity of 1.24 million barrels of oil per day in any single location in the world.[1]
The state-of-the-art, globally competitive RPL refinery has been completed in 36 months from concept to commissioning, which is a new benchmark for building a grass-root refinery of this scale and complexity. RPL achieved the milestone by leveraging the project management skills of the Reliance group together with world-class implementation partners like Bechtel, UOP and Foster Wheeler amongst others.
In the desire to make Jamnagar Refinery the world's largest petrochemicals facility, Reliance has plans to expand further with the addition of an ethylene cracker with associated downstream polymer units. A new aromatics unit is also in the cards.
There are also plans in the pipeline to process High Pour Point crude oil extracted at Barmer, Rajasthan in the near future. This would require a electrically heat traced pipeline to be set up from Barmer to Jamnagar. These developments indicate that there might be further expansions to the crude processing units at the refinery.
Threat Perception
The refinery and Reliance Industries have both come under criticism because the site is located extremely close to the border with Pakistan. This places India's biggest and most crucial refinery in direct risk of attack if there is ever a war.
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