The Jamnagar Refinery is the private sector crude

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owned by

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Jamnagar Jamnagar () is a city located on the western coast of India in the state of Gujarat of Saurashtra (region), Saurashtra region. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jamnagar district and the fifth largest city in Gujarat. The city lies ...

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, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of . Its current installed capacity is . It is currently the largest refinery in the world.

History

On 25 December 2008, 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 (Reliance Petroleum limited) refinery has enabled Jamnagar to emerge as a 'Refinery land', housing the world's largest refining complex with an aggregate refining capacity of 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

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)amongst others. There were plans for the pipeline to process High Pour Point crude oil extracted at Barmer,

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, 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 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 during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic

In 2020, during the

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the domestic demand for polymer strongly declined in India. As a result, in order to keep production and sales running,

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management decided to refocus the production of polymer on export markets. With the help of the

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shipping and logistics group, exports from the Jamnagar Refinery were quadrupled to over 10,000 x 40' containers, which transported and exported through

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* {{Reliance Group Oil refineries in India Reliance Industries Jamnagar district 1999 establishments in Gujarat Companies based in Gujarat Energy in Gujarat Manufacturing plants of Reliance Industries Indian companies established in 1999

History

Export expansion during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic

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