Refineries In India

Installed Capacity and Refinery Crude Throughput

Existing Petroleum Product, LPG & Crude Pipelines in the Country

Brief Details of Few Refineries

Panipat Refinery

Built at the cost of Rs. 3868 crores (including Marketing and pipelines installation) with an installed capacity of processing 12 million tonnes per annum of crude oil.

The Refinery produces annually about 2 lakh tonnes of cooking gas (LPG), 8 lakh tonnes of Petrol, 3 lakh tonnes of jet fuel, 6 lakh tonnes of kerosene & 24 lakh tonnes of Diesel apart from other products such as Naphtha, Bitumen etc

For environment protection & conservation, the refinery has also commenced production of ultra low sulphur diesel and 1 % benzene petrol(Benzene is a natural constituent of crude oil. Benzene causes cancer and other illnesses)

The various units of the refinery are :

AVU (Atmospheric & Vacuum Distillation Unit) : (6.0 Million Metric Ton Per Annum): Crude oil distillation / fractionation for further processing in secondary units

HGU (Hydrogen Generation Unit) : (0.038 Million Metric Ton Per Annum): Hydrogen generation for processes requiring hydrogen

CCRU (Continuous Catalytic Reforming Unit) : (0.5 Million Metric Ton Per Annum): For improving octane number of petrol component. This process eliminates requirement of environmentally hazardous TEL (Tetra Ethyl Lead) blending in petrol.

RFCCU (Residue Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit) : (0.7 Million Metric Ton Per Annum): Catalytic cracking of heavy intermediate stocks for production of lighter products viz. LPG, Petrol, Diesel components

Mathura Refinery It was commissioned in the year 1982. At present it has the capacity of processing 8.0 MMTPA of crude oil The refinery, which cost Rs.253.92 crores to build,

The crude oil with low sulphur from Bombay High, imported crude with low sulphur from Nigeria, and crude with high sulphur from Middle East Countries are processed at this refinery.

Mathura Refinery has taken a number of initiatives to save the environment, public health and also to preserve the national monuments in and around the city of Mathura , particularly Taj Mahal at Agra

Mathura refinery has been producing highly eco-friendly petrol and diesel for the NCT, NCR and Agra region.

The Refinery enjoys the distinction of being the first refinery in India capable of producing 100% auto fuels that meets Euro - III norms

The process units at Mathura Refinery Atmospheric & Vacuum unit , Vis-breaker Unit, Bitumen Unit, Sulphur Recovery unit and Fluidized Catalytic cracking Unit. Once Through Hydro-cracker unit (OHCU), Catalytic Reforming Unit (CRU), MS quality up gradation, Diesel hydro de-sulphurisation Unit, (DHDS), new Sulphur Recovery unit (SRU), Diesel Hydrotreating (DHDT) unit

Mathura Refinery is having its own captive power plant,

Jamnagar Refinery , Of Reliance Gujarat. It comprises of a petroleum refinery and associated petrochemical plants.

The refinery is equipped to refine various types of crude oil (sour crude, sweet crude or a mixture of both) and manufactures various grades of fuel from motor gasoline to Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF).

The petrochemicals plants produces plastics and fibre intermediates.

Created in a record time of less than three years,

The Jamnagar Manufacturing Division has a 33 - million tonnes per annum refinery that is fully integrated with downstream petrochemicals units which manufacture naphtha-based aromatics as well as propylene-based polymers.

RPL commenced its crude processing on 25 December 2008.

The refinery project is being implemented at a capital cost of Rs 270,000 million (Rs 27,000 crore)

The refinery is able to process a wide variety of crudes- from very light to very heavy (from 18 to 45 degree API) and from sweet to very sour (with sulphur content from 0 to 4.5%).

The existing refinery complex at Jamnagar has more than 50 process units, which together process the basic feedstock, crude oil, to obtain various finished products deploying the following major refining processes:

Crude oil distillation (Atmospheric as well as vacuum distillation) Catalytic cracking (Fluidised Catalytic Cracker) Catalytic reforming Delayed Coking Hydrodesulphurisation :Catalytic Reforming Unit :Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit : Sulphur Recovery : Hydrogen Generation : Merox TreatingAll process units in the Jamnagar Manufacturing Division, the largest grass-roots refinery complex in the world

Special features of the refinery complex :Reliance refinery configuration is characterized by its superior product slate as compared to that of the other refineries. Two important features in this regard are:

High proportion of high-value products such as propylene and LPG (adding to over 10% on crude processed as compared to 2-3% for most other refineries)

Nil production of low-value "black oils" - fuel oil (compared to 12-20% on crude processed for most other refineries) under normal circumstances

(Business Standard sept, 2011)

Reliance Industry Ltd’s (RIL) refinery at Jamnagar has been ranked the best by Shell Benchmarking magazine for the third consecutive year in ‘energy and loss’ performance from among 50 refineries worldwide)

The integrated petrochemical and refinery complex at Jamnagar accounts for 24 per cent of India’s refining capacity and is the world’s largest grassroot refinery and the fifth largest at any single location

Bharat Petroleum’s Mumbai Refinery (BPMR’s)

Processes about 12 Million Metric Tons of crude oil per annum.

Crude oil Processed

(TMT)

2007-08

2006-07

2005-06

2004-05

2003-04

2002-03

2001-02

Imported 8180 7851 11584 5093 4543 3230 3587Indigenous 4563 4175 5653 4045 4214 5481 5183

Total 12743 12026 17237 9138 8757 8711 8770

Light Distillates Naptha 1292 1096 1957 1125 1106 1072 1085

LPG 448 425 739 359 367 377 353Motor Spirit 1178 1086 1632 929 859 883 856

Special Boiling Point Spirit /Hexane

26 37 44 24 30 31 35

Benzene 49 63 61 44 43 70 56Toluene 11 14 43 10 13 20 17

Polypropylene Feedstock 63 46 38 48 16 7 4Others 0.5 3 3 0 24 25 21

Sub Total 3068 2770 4517 2539 2458 2485 2427

Production ('000MT)

Middle Distillates

Aviation Turbine Fuel 701 486 536 329 336 298 279

Superior Kerosene Oil 877 1095 1551 772 762 807 811

High Speed Diesel 4542 4027 5785 2828 2746 2824 2938

Light Diesel Oil 98 128 165 164 132 199 112

Mineral Turpentine Oil 82 79 128 85 92 105 94

Lube oil base stock 154 105 0 0 0 0 0

Sub Total 6454 5920 8165 4178 4068 4233 4234

Heavy Ends

Furnace Oil 1519 1835 2209 1041 990 608 649

Low Sulphur Heavy Stock

323 342 706 518 455 522 601

Bitumen 56 318 439 307 278 361 354

Sulphur 461 50 48 15 10 12 14

Others 3 0 0 0 0 0 0

Sub Total 2362 2545 3402 1881 1733 1503 1618

Grand Total 11884 11235 16084 8598 8259 8221 8279

The list of various process plants in Mumbai Refinery

Crude Distillation UnitFluid Catalytic Cracking UnitHydro-Cracker UnitLubricating Oil Base StockNaphtha Hydro-Desulphurisation Unit Catalytic Reforming Unit Aromatic Extraction UnitDiesel Hydrodesulphurisation (DHDS) UnitSulphur Recovery Unit ( Treating Units