Reliance Industries commissions ethane project at Dahej

Reliance Industries Ltd has commissioned world’s largest and most complex ethane project, including commissioning of its ethane receipt & handling facilities and ethane cracking, at its Dahej facility in Gujarat in a world record time of less than three years.

Reliance is the first company to globally conceptualise large-scale imports of ethane from North America as feedstock for its cracker portfolio in India. The project involved seamless integration of several elements across a complex infrastructure value chain. This includes securing ethane refrigeration capacity in the US Gulf coast; delivery of dedicated very large ethane carriers (VLECs) to carry ethane from the US Gulf Coast to the west coast of India; construction of ethane receipt and handling facilities; laying pipelines and upgrading crackers (to receive ethane) at Dahej, Hazira and Nagothane manufacturing facilities.