Jamnagar Refinery I

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Reliance
  • Website: http://www.ril.com/
  • Location: Jamnagar, Gujarat, Western India
  • Capacity: 33 million tons/annum & 620,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity: 11.3
  • Refining Depth:

Brief Description

  • One of the largest refineries in the world, it is also very complex
  • It is half of the world's largest refinery together with Jamnagar Refinery II

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • vacuum distillation
  • Catalytic cracking (Fluidised Catalytic Cracker)
  • Catalytic reforming (Platforming)
  • Delayed Coking

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • The refinery is equipped to refine various types of crude oil (sour crude, sweet crude or a mixture of both).

Products Produced

  • Propylene (Polymer grade), Naphtha (Ethylene cracker feedstock, Fertilizer feedstock grade and fuel grades) , Jet / Aviation Turbine Fuel, Kerosene as Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) feedstock, TAME (an oxygenate for improving anti-knocking properties of gasoline), Granulated sulphur (in bulk), Petroleum coke

Projects

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Other Information

  • During its six years of operations, the refinery has operated at near 100% utilization with minimal downtime, consistently outperforming the average utilization rates of refineries in the Asia Pacific region, the European Union and North America,
  • The Reliance refinery at Jamnagar was adjudged the most Energy Efficient Refinery by Shell Global Solutions in 2004 and was awarded the International Refiner of the Year, 2005 by Hart Energy Publishing LP; the first Asian company to receive the recognition.

History

  • 1999 - Refinery commissioned
  • 2004 - Coker revamp

Links

  1. Foster Wheeler Delayed Cokers
  2. Punj Lloyd Refining References
  3. Saipem Asia Pipeline References
  4. Refinery Webpage