Ahmedabad: Gujarat emerges as ‘petro capital’ of India, officials

AHMEDABAD: With the world’s largest local petroleum refinery at Jamnagar and the OPAL petrochemical complex at Dahej in Bharuch district, Gujarat is now recognized as the “petroleum capital” of India, officials said. Reliance Industries Limited’s (RIL) Jamnagar refinery is the world’s largest and most complex refinery with a crude processing capacity of 1.4 million barrels per day (MMBPD), he said. According to the official website of RIL, the Jamnagar refinery complex houses some of the largest units in the world, such as catalytic fluidized cracker plant, coking, curing, paraxylene, polypropylene, refinery residual gas cracker and coke gasification. Of petroleum. Gujarat Prime Minister Bhupendra Patel recently highlighted the impact of the state’s petrochemical sector. “Industrial development is an important medium to realize the determination of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The sustained growth of the chemical and petrochemical sector has overtaken all (all states),” Patel said at an event. At the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS) celebrated in 2019, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth Rs 3.000 million was signed for a biorefinery in the area of investment in Petroleum, Productos Quimicos y Petroquímica (PCPIR) of Dahej. . After this Rs 7,000. MoU worth Rs 1 crore in 2022 for manufacturing chemical products in Dahej, officials said. The tenth edition of VGGS will be celebrated in Gandhinagar from January 10 to 12 next year on the theme “Port of Entry to the Future”. Jai Shroff, Chairman and Executive Director, Group UPL Limited, recently lauded Gujarat’s progressive policies for the sector’s remarkable growth. “Thanks to the support provided by the Gujarat government, the main actors in this sector have reached new heights in the global market. These companies started as small-scale units but eventually transformed into important actors. Active government policies As a result, the state contributes about 75 per cent to the total manufacturing of dyes and intermediate products in the country”, Shroff said. As Reliance, Shell, ONGC and other companies have set up their manufacturing facilities in Gujarat, experts believe that one day the state will be incomparable in its chemical and petrochemical sector. According to its website, the area of investment in petroleum, chemical products and petrochemicals at Dahej in Bharuch district of Gujarat is one of the four PCPIRs announced by the Center under the Policy PCPIR 2007. PCPIR of Gujarat is spread over an area of 452.98 square kilometers and is well connected by road, railway, port and air connectivity. According to the OPAL web site, ONGC Petro Aids Limited or OPAL’s setup at PCPIR is one of the largest petrochemical complexes in South Asia, adding that the mega petrochemical complex is spread over 5 square kilometers with a capacity to produce 14 lakh tonnes. Is. Ton Polymer and 5 Lakh. Tons of chemical products. While OPAL is the ‘Inquilino link’ of PCPIR, it also has manufacturing and processing facilities of BASF, ONGC, RIL, Welspun, Pidilite and GNFC, among others.