The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery

Refinery

A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.-Types of refineries:Different types of refineries are as follows:...

 owned by Reliance Industries

Reliance Industries

Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian conglomerate company headquartered at Mumbai, India. The company operates through three business segments: petrochemicals, refining, and oil and gas, other segment of the company includes textile, retail business, special economic zone development and...

 in Jamnagar

Jamnagar

Jamnagar is a city and a municipal corporation in Jamnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The city was built up substantially by Maharaja Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji in the 1920s, when the district was known as Nawanagar. The district lies just to the south of the Gulf of Kutch and is...

, Gujarat, India

India

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. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of 668000 oilbbl/d. It is the largest refinery in the world.

Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL) on 25 December 2008 announced the commissioning of its refinery in a Special Economic Zone at Jamnagar, Gujarat in India. With the completion of the RPL refinery, Jamnagar has emerged as the ‘Refining Hub of the
World’ with the largest refining complex with an aggregate refining capacity of 1.24 Moilbbl of oil per day in any single location in the world.

The globally competitive RPL refinery was completed in 36 months from concept to commissioning, which was a new benchmark for building a grass-root refinery of this scale and complexity. RPL achieved the milestone by leveraging the project management skills of the Reliance group together with world-class implementation partners like
Bechtel

Bechtel

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, UOP LLC

UOP LLC

UOP LLC, formerly known as Universal Oil Products, is a multi-national company developing and delivering technology to the petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production, and major manufacturing industries....

 and Foster Wheeler amongst others.

There are plans in the pipeline to process High Pour Point crude oil extracted at Barmer, Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 in the near future. This would require an electrically heat traced pipeline to be set up from Barmer

Barmer

Barmer may refer to the following places:*Barmer district, a district of Rajasthan state, India**Barmer , a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency of Rajasthan**Barmer, Rajasthan, a city in Barmer district...

to Jamnagar. These developments indicate that there might be further expansions to the crude processing units at the refinery.http://www.ril.com/html/aboutus/manufact_jamnagar.html

External links

• Reliance - Flagship company of Reliance Group.
• Reliance, Official Website
• Reliance Petroleum, Official Website