Mumbai, India: Essar Oil, India's second largest private refiner, has been conferred the prestigious 'Refinery of the Year Award 2011' by the Petroleum Federation (PetroFed), in recognition of its impressive performance in the Indian refining sector last year.
The award was received by Mr. C Manoharan, Director – Refinery, Essar Oil, from the Honorable Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Mr. S Jaipal Reddy during the annual Petroleum Federation Oil and Gas industry awards for 2011 event held in New Delhi recently.
This award acknowledges production and operational efficiencies in performance in refining and petroleum in India during fiscal 2010-11. The company has won a trophy and a citation for excellence in its refining performance.
"Essar Oil’s Vadinar refinery today accounts for 10 per cent of India’s total refining capacity. We are humbled by this recognition by PetroFed. It is our endeavor to create value for customers in the oil and gas sector, through world-class operating standards and state-of-the-art technology,” said Mr. LK Gupta, MD & CEO, Essar Oil.
The Refinery of the Year category was one of the nine categories at the PetroFed awards, an apex hydrocarbon industry association representing companies from India's public and private companies in oil and gas sector.
Just last week Essar Oil completed its Refinery Optimisation Project four months ahead of schedule, taking the capacity of Vadinar refinery to 20 MMTPA or 405,000 barrels per day, making it India’s second largest single location refinery. In March, Essar Oil completed the Refinery Expansion Project to raise its nameplate capacity to 18MMTPA from 10.5 MMTPA, and complexity to 11.8. Essar Oil has invested approx. Rs 24,000 crore at its Vadinar Refinery complex.
About Essar Oil
Essar Oil is a fully integrated oil and gas company of international scale
with strong presence across the hydrocarbon value chain from exploration and
production to refining and oil retail. It has a global portfolio of onshore
and offshore oil and gas blocks, with about 2.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent
in reserves and resources. Essar Oil now has 405,000 bpsd (barrels per stream-day)
of crude refining capacity. There are more than 1,600 Essar-branded oil retail
outlets in various parts of India.
About Essar Group
The Essar Group is a multinational conglomerate and a leading player in the
sectors of Steel, Energy, Infrastructure and Services. With operations in more
than 25 countries across five continents, the Group employs 75,000 people, with
revenues of over US$ 27 billion.
Media contacts:
Rabin Ghosh,Corporate Communications, (Mumbai)
Phone: 91 99 301 36268, email: rabin.ghosh@essar.com
Parikshit Kaul, Corporate Communications (New Delhi),
Phone: +91 98735 70816, Email:parikshit.kaul@essar.com
Priyank Talati, Corporate Communications (Ahmedabad),
Phone: +91 91 9979868817, Email: priyank.talati@essar.com
Jayesh Thanki, Corporate Communications (Vadinar),
Phone: +91 99 798 91425, Email: jbthanki@essar.com
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