Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) is set to begin test runs of its new refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat shortly. After the trial run, the new export-oriented refinery may be commissioned within a month, according to company sources. Fuel from this refinery will be mainly exported to the US and European markets.
Reliance Petroleum, a unit of RIL, has set up the new refinery with a capacity of producing 580,000 barrels per day (29 million ton). Located at a Jamnagar Special Economic Zone (SEZ), the refinery is built at a cost of $6 billion.
"Test runs will begin in next few days. We could reach full capacity within a days of starting production. We will commission in phases and if everything goes well we hope to repeat the first refinery's commissioning which was done in days because we did not have any problem," a top company official said at the sidelines of India Energy Conference here today.
Different units of the refinery will be commissioned step by step and full commissioning may happen in October itself. "Initially, we will produce Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel and will upgrade to Euro-V once more complicated units like DHDS are commissioned," the official said.
