Panipat Petrochemicals Complex

Summary Information

• Ownership: Indian Oil Company Limited
• Website: https://iocl.com/
• Location: Panipat, India

Brief Description

• A large petrochemicals complex with a naphtha cracker and a range of other plants producing polyolefins and other derivayives

Production Units

• Naphtha Cracker
• Paraxylene plant
• Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plant
• Polypropylene Unit (Capacity: 600 KTA)
• High-Density Polyethylene Unit (HDPE) (capacity: 300KTA)
• Swing Unit (350 KTA, Linear Low-Density Poly Ethylene with HDPE)
• Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) plant (capacity: 325 KTA)
• Butadiene Unit (130KTA)
• Butene unit (20 KTA)

Raw Materials Supply

• Naphtha is supplied from the adjacent Panipat Refinery

Products Produced

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Projects

• A Poly-Butadiene Rubber (PBR) plant is under construction with capacity of 60,000 tonnes per annum. IOCL expects completion in 2025.

Other Information

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History

• 2006 - The PTA plant was commissioned
• 2010 - The naphtha cracker was commissioned
• 2022 - Investment approval for Poly-Butadiene Rubber (PBR) plant
• 2023 - The PX plant was expanded to 700 ktpa

Links

1. IOCL Panipat
2. investment approval for implementation of Poly- Butadiene Rubber project at Panipat (Haryana)