Haldia Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Indian Oil Company
• Website: http://www.iocl.com/
• List of Indian Oil Company Refineries
• Location: Haldia, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India
• Capacity: 7.0 million tons/annum & 150,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A medium sized complex refinery, Haldia Refinery is currently the only coastal refinery of the corporation and the lone lube producer

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Diesel Hydro Desulphurisation (DHDS) Unit
• Resid Fluidised Catalytic Cracking Unit (RFCCU)
• Catalytic Dewaxing Unit (CIDWU)
• Hydrocracker
• Hydrogen Generation Unit
• Sulphur Recovery Unit
• Naphtha Splitter - 385,000 MT/YR
• Naphtha Hydrotreater - 82,000 MT/YR
• Reformate Splitter - 182,000 MT/YR
• Isomerisation – LPG Recovery - 122,000 MT/YR
• Selective Hydrogenation - 200,000 MT/YR
• FCC Gasoline Splitter - 200,000 MT/YR
• Prime G+ Selective Hydrodesulphurisation - 160,000MT/YR

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

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Products Produced

• LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, Asphalt, Wax, Lubricant Base Oil
• Petroleum products from this refinery are supplied mainly to eastern India through two product pipelines, namely Haldia-Mourigram-Rajband Pipeline (HMRBPL), and Haldia-Barauni-Kanpur Pipeline (HBKPL)

Projects

• A project is underway to enable the refinery to produce Group III base oils
• A hydrocracker has been recently commissioned, with capacity of 2.5 Million TPA
• The refinery has recently been expanded to 7.5 million tons / annum and a delayed coker was being installed
• See Haldia Refinery Hydrocracker Project for details
• The refinery is installing a gasoil hydrotreater to meet Euro III / IV standards

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History

• 1976 - Refinery commissioned with capacity of 2.5 Million TPA
• 1983 - 100,000 TPA Propane Deasphalting unit commissioned
• 1997 - 1997 with the installation/commissioning of the second Crude Distillation Unit of 1.0 MMTPA
• 1999 - Diesel Hydro Desulphurisation (DHDS) Unit was commissioned
• 2001 - Resid Fluidised Catalytic Cracking Unit (RFCCU) was commissioned
• 2003 - Catalytic Dewaxing Unit (CIDWU) was installed and commissioned
• 2005 - The Haldia Refinery Motor Spirit Quality Upgrade Project was completed
• 2010 - Hydrocracker commissioned and capacity expanded to 150,000 bpd
• 2010 - Euro V diesel project launched
• 2019 - Base oil project launched

Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Technip Refining References
3. Opening of Hydrocracker
4. Delayed Coker & LPG Merox Unit
5. IndianOil Commissions Once-through Hydrocracker Unit at Haldia Refinery and expands its capacity to 7.5 MMTPA
6. [[[Engineers India Refining References]]]
7. IOCL Selects Axens' Coker Gas Oil Hydrotreating Technology
8. McDermott Announces Chevron Lummus Global Technology Award for Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.'s Haldia Refinery