India’s RPL starts trials at refinery-PP project

21 October 2008 18:07  [Source: ICIS news]

NEW DELHI (ICIS news)--India’s Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL) has shifted its focus from mechanical completion to the start-up of its refinery and polypropylene (PP) complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat State, the company said on Tuesday.

The company said it had achieved 97% progress on the project. Several primary, secondary process systems and treatment units had been completed, it said. Pre-commissioning and commissioning trails of static and rotary equipment, and instrumentation systems, were underway.

RPL, however, did not specify the start-up schedule. It had earlier stated that the complex was likely to be commissioned ahead of the initial planned start up in December.

The refinery will have capacity to process 27m tonne/year of crude oil to make petroleum products such as 8m-10m tonnes/year of gasoline. The complex would also have capacity to produce 900,000 tonnes/year PP, 450,000- 600 000 tonnes/year of sulphur and 2m-3m tonnes/year of alkylate.

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