Visakhapatnam Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)
- Website: http://www.hindustanpetroleum.com/
- Location: Vishakapatnam, (East Coast), India
- Capacity: 8.3 million tons/annum & 166,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
=== Brief Description A medium sized medium complexity refinery === Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation Unit
- FCC
- DHDS - 1.8 Million TPA
=== Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
=== Crude Supply
=== Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Diesel
=== Projects
- HPCL is expanding the size of the refinery to 15 million tons
- See Visakhapatnam Refinery Expansion Project
=== Other Information -
History
- 1957 - Commissioned by Caltex Oil Refining (India)
- 1976 - Taken over by Government of India
- 1978 - Merged with HPCL
- 1985 - Expansion of Refinery from 1.5 to 5.6 Million TPA & Secondary Processing Facilities (FCC : 0.6 Million TPA)
- 1999 - The refinery's crude refining capacity increased to a further 7.5 MMTPA
- 2000 - 1.8 Million TPA DHDS Project
- 2005 - DHDS Revamp
- 2012 - Clean fuels project completed