RIL all set to start test runs at new Jamnagar refinery
03 Oct 2008
Mumbai: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) will start test runs at its $6 billion second refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat in a few days, with expected commissioning of the export-oriented refinery within a month, company sources said.
Products from the 580,000 barrels per day (29 million ton) refinery, located at a Jamnagar Special Economic Zone (SEZ), will be mainly exported to the US and European markets.
The commissioning of the refinery, set up by Reliance Petroleum, a unit of Reliance Industries Ltd, will be done on a step by step basis and full commissioning may happen in October itself.
''Test runs will begin in the next few days. We could reach full capacity within a days of starting production. We will commission in phases and if everything goes well we hope to repeat the first refinery's commissioning which was done in days because we did not have any problem,'' a top company official said on the sidelines of an energy conference.
''Initially, we will produce Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel and will upgrade to Euro-V once more complicated units like DHDS are commissioned," the official said.
The new refinery is adjacent to RIL's existing 6,60,000 bpd (33 million tons) refinery at an adjacent site to the new unit.