Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri said the HPPCL Rajasthan Refinery (HRRL) project will be ready by January 2024 and will be fully functional by 2024. The petroleum minister said that the ministry will request Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the refinery in January 2024.
The greenfield refinery-cum-petrochemical complex at Barmer, Rajasthan, is being set up by a joint venture company HPCL Rajasthan Refinery (HRRL) of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) and the government of Rajasthan having a stake of 74 per cent and 26 per cent, respectively.
The capacity of the complex is 9 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA), which includes 2.4 MMTPA of Petrochemical products.
Rajasthan refinery project envisages to process imported crude as well as Rajasthan crude. The design crude mix is 1.5 MMTPA of Rajasthan crude and 7.5 MMTPA imported crude. The complex is also designed to process 9 MMTPA imported crude. The project broadly comprises of following process units/ facilities.
India is the fourth largest refiners of the world after the US, Russia, China. India currently had 250 mmtpa capacity and India will become the third largest refiners of the world if it achieves set the target of 450 mmtpa.
Tags: Hardeep Singh Puri, HPCL, Rajasthan, Refinery
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