Barauni Refinery
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Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: Indian Oil Company
- Website: http://www.iocl.com/
- List of Indian Oil Company Refineries
- Location: 125 kilometeres from Patna, India
- Capacity: 6 million tons/annum & 120.000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Resid Fluidised Catalytic Cracker (RFCC),
- Delayed Coker
- Diesel Hydrotreating (DHDT),
- Sulphur Recovery Unit (SRU)
- Catalytic Reformer Unit
- Prime-G+™ unit
Terminal Capacity
- * Crude Oil:
Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Sweet crude is being sourced from African, South East Asian and Middle East countries like Nigeria, Iraq & Malaysia.
- The crude is brought up to Haldia by Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) from where it is pumped through the Haldia-Barauni Crude Oil Pipeline.
- The refinery is now capable of using sour crudes.
Products Produced
- Gasoline, Diesel
Projects
- A project to expand the refinery is underway
- See Barauni Refinery Expansion Project for details
- The Barauni Refinery Ms Quality Upgradation Project was completed in 2010
Other Information
- Built by Soviet companies
History
- 1964 - Refinery is commissioned
- 1969 - Capacity increased to 3.0 million tons per annum
- 1987 - 500,000 TPA Delayed Coker & 50,000 TPA LPG Plant added
- 1988 - Revamp to increase capacity
- 1997 - Commissioning of catalytic reformer
- 1998 - 60,000 TPA Wax Hydro-finishing Unit commissioned
- 2003 - Major expansion and upgrade completed, bringing capacity up to 6.0 million tons per annum
- 2007 - Axens awarded licence for Prime-G+™ unit
- 2010 - Barauni Refinery MS Quality Upgradation Project completed
- 2017 - Barauni Refinery Coker Project completed
Links
- Refinery Webpage
- Poerner Bitumen References
- Technip Refining References
- Energy Efficiency Programme
- Refineries in India
- Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) awards Toyo India PMC Services Contract for MSQ Upgradation Project at their Barauni Refinery
- India Expands Clean Fuels Programs
- Engineers India Refining References
- Indigenously Developed Delayed Coker-A unit commissioned at Barauni Refinery
