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Jamnagar Refinery

The Jamnagar Refinery at night
Location of Lamba Refinery in Gujarat
Country	India
State	Gujarat
City	Motikhavdi, Jamnagar
Coordinates	22°20′53″N 69°52′8″E / 22.34806°N 69.86889°E / 22.34806; 69.86889
Refinery details
Owner(s)	Reliance Industries Limited
Commissioned	14 July 1999 (14 July 1999)
Capacity	18,400,000 bbl/d (2,930,000 m/d)
Complexity index	21.1

The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries in Motikhavdi, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an initial installed capacity of 668,000 barrels per day (106,200 m/d). Its current installed capacity after expansion is 1,240,000 barrels per day (197,000 m/d). It is currently the largest refinery in the world.

History

On 25 December 2001, Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL) announced the commissioning of its refinery into a Special Economic Zone in Jamnagar district of Gujarat, India. The completion of the RPL refinery has enabled Jamnagar to emerge as a 'Refinery land', housing the world's largest refining complex with an aggregate refining capacity of 1.24 million barrels (197,000 m) of oil per day, more than any other single location in the world.

The globally competitive RPL refinery was commissioned in 36 months. RPL contracted several companies having expertise in engineering construction and refining like Bechtel, UOP LLC and Foster Wheeler (multinational corporation) amongst others. There were plans for the pipeline to process High Pour Point crude oil extracted at Barmer, Rajasthan, although this would require an electrically heated traced pipeline to be set up from Barmer to Jamnagar.

The entire complex, as of 2013, consists of manufacturing and allied facilities, utilities, off-sites, port facilities and a township (415 acres) with housing for its 2,500 employees, on over 7,500 acres (3,000 ha; 11.7 sq mi) of land. If all of the pipes used in the refinery were laid out, one after another, they would connect the whole of India from north to south.

Export expansion

In 2019, during the COVID-19 pandemic the domestic demand for polymer strongly declined in India. As a result, in order to keep production and sales running, Reliance Industries Limited management decided to refocus the production of polymer on export markets. With the help of the Maersk shipping and logistics group, exports from the Jamnagar Refinery were quadrupled to over 10,000 x 40' containers, which transported and exported through Port Pipavav.

Following sanctions imposed on Russia by mainly Western countries, but not by India, the Jamnagar refinery was one of the main refiners exporting oil products made from Russian oil to sanctioning nations. The refinery has been the destination of Russian shadow fleet vessels.

See also

• List of oil refineries
• Petrochemicals
• Chemical engineering

References

1. "Integrated Annual Report 2018-2019" (PDF). Reliance Industries Limited. 2019. Jamnagar site has a complexity index of 21.1
2. "Petroleum Refining & Marketing".
3. "Reliance commissions world's biggest refinery". The Indian Express. 26 December 2008. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
4. "Growth through Energy Products". Archived from the original on 27 February 2007.
5. "Cairn India starts work on Barmer-Jamnagar pipeline project". www.projectstoday.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
6. "RIL's Jamnagar Refinery Listed Among The World's Top Five Refineries". Archived from the original on 6 June 2013.
7. "About Jamnagar" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2011.
8. "Keeping supply chains moving during COVID-19". Maersk. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
9. "India exported USD 6.65 bn oil products derived from Russian oil to sanctioning nations: Report - ET EnergyWorld". ETEnergyworld.com. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
10. "China and India snub EU and UK sanctions as record volumes of Russia oil shipped on 'dark' or designated tankers". Lloyd's List. 9 October 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2025.

External links

• Official website

• Oil refineries in India
• Reliance Industries
• Jamnagar district
• 1999 establishments in Gujarat
• Energy infrastructure completed in 1999
• Companies based in Gujarat
• Energy in Gujarat
• Manufacturing plants of Reliance Industries
• Indian companies established in 1999
• 20th-century architecture in India