RIL commissions refinery off-gas cracker at Jamnagar

With the commissioning of the project, RIL joins the league of top 5 petrochemical producers globally

RIL says this is one of the largest capital expenditure programme globally in the sector in recent times. Image source: Reuters

Reliance Industries today announced commissioning of refinery off-gas cracker at Jamnagar in Gujarat.

With the commissioning of the project, RIL joins the league of top 5 petrochemical producers globally by doubling its ethylene capacity, Reliance Industries said in a statement.

"RIL has successfully commissioned and achieved design throughput of the world’s first ever and largest Refinery Off-Gas Cracker (ROGC) complex of 1.5 MMTPA capacity along with downstream plants and utilities. The ROGC complex is a core component of RIL’s most innovative and world-scale J3 project at its integrated Refinery-Petrochemicals complex at Jamnagar," the statement said.

"This is one of the largest capital expenditure programme globally in the sector in recent times. It epitomises RIL’s core strategy of continuously pursuing opportunities for cost optimisation and efficiency enhancement through vertical integration across the value chain."

The statement added that with the commissioning of LLDPE and LDPE plants at Jamnagar along with its existing PE plants at other manufacturing sites, RIL has capability to produce entire range of PE grades covering all end-uses in the Indian market.

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of RIL, said: “The world’s first ROGC and downstream plants marks a paradigm shift in the profitability and sustainability of RIL’s petrochemicals business. The ROGC complex is built on our core philosophy of deep feedstock integration to establish industry leading cost and efficiency benchmarks."

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