As many as 114 families residing in 90 hutments at the project site of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd’s (IOCL) refinery at Paradip will be evicted to facilitate hassle free unloading of the oil marketing firm’s consignments.
“Since IOCL’s consignments have already started arriving at the project site, it has been decided to evict 114 families living in 90 hutments after giving them suitable compensation. The revenue department has been asked to undertake the eviction. It has also been decided to set up a police outpost at Abhaychandrapur which will cater to the law and order problems of IOCL refinery as well as the Posco steel project”, said an official of the state industries department.
The state Chief Secretary B K Patnaik on Tuesday reviewed the progress of IOCL refinery project.
IOCL aims to commission its proposed 15 million tonne per annum refinery project at Paradip by the middle of 2012. The oil major has already invested Rs 8,000 crore on the project. The total cost of the refinery would be about Rs 25,000 crore.
The oil major, however, is going slow on the petrochemical complex which was planned along with the refinery project.
Earlier, in January this year, the then IOCL chairman Brij Mohan Bansal said, financial constraints would delay the establishment of the petrochemical complex in Paradip. He stated that the petrochemical complex would be taken up after two years of operations of the refinery.
The refinery project involves massive civil, structural and mechanical works involving 2600 equipment, 1400 km of piping, 90,000 bored and driven piles, 5,00,000 cubic metres of concreting and 1600 km of electrical cables in which 10,000 people have been engaged to expedite the work.
The refinery will produce 5.97 million tonnes of diesel, 3.4 million tonnes of petrol, 1.45 million tonnes of kerosene/ATF (Aviation Turbine Fuel), 536,000 tonnes of LPG, 124,000 tonnes of naphtha and 335,000 tonnes of sulphur, all of which will be for sale in the domestic market.
IOCL has been given 3344.65 acres of land. The company is also the anchor tenant for the Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) in Orissa which has already been cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).
The PCPIR project in the state would come up on 284.15 sq km (70,214 acres) of land spread over Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara districts. The PCPIR hub is expected to attract investments to the tune of Rs 2.74 lakh crore.
