Reliance Industries has been consistently operating its export-oriented refinery at a rate higher than the nameplate capacity. AFPNew Delhi: India’s Reliance Industries has declared a 30% increase in the installed capacity of its export-focused oil refinery, a government report showed, increasing the size the world’s largest refinery complex. India’s Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell (PPAC) in its October report showed 35.2 million tonnes a year as the installed capacity of Reliance’s refinery in the special economic zone (SEZ) at Jamnagar, in northwest India. That is up from 27 million tonnes, or 540,000 barrels per day (bpd), as of 1 April that PPAC reported in an August 2017 report. Reliance built its first refinery at Jamnagar with an installed capacity of 660,000 bpd in 1999.

Source: Mint January 16, 2018 12:00 UTC