Overview

Essar's oil refinery at Vadinar in Jamnagar, Gujarat is ideally located in India's West Coast in close proximity to the crude rich Gulf States. Vadinar is an all-weather deep-draft natural port. More than 60% of India's crude imports land in and around this region. Besides, the refinery's location enables access to the fast growing markets in the north and western region of India through product pipelines. The eastern and southern parts of India will be serviced through the coastal route circling the country.

Essar Oil's Refinery has a capacity of 10.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) with an investment of close to Rs.10 Billion (USD 2.2 billion). The refinery is being built with the latest, state of the art technology with technical and project assistance from the world's leading consultants and equipment suppliers in the field. It is designed to handle a diverse range of crude mixes.

The refinery is configured to produce Euro II and Euro III grades of Petrol and Diesel. With mid-stream up gradation of processes and technologies, the refinery will have the capability to process the most sour, acidic and heavy crude.

The refinery is fully integrated with its own dedicated 120 MW co-generation power plant, port and terminal facilities. It includes a Single Point Mooring (SPM) capable of handling vessels up to 350, 000 DWT with a capacity; marine product dispatch capacity of 14 MTPA; rail -car and truck loading facilities.

The refinery has built-in environment friendly technologies for pollution management and has also planted over one million trees to ensure a green corridor around the entire refinery complex.

World renowned processes - with the world technology leaders at work.

Unit / Facility Capacity (MMTPA) CDU / VDU/ SGU 10.5 Amine Wash & Regeneration 400 T/D* Visbreaker 1.9 CCR 0.9 Naphtha Hydrotreater 1.36 Diesel Hydrotreater 3.3 FCCU / UGS 2.9 Kerosene Treating Unit 0.63 Gasoline Treating Unit 0.5 Saturated LPG Treating Unit 0.28 UNSAT. LPG Treating Unit 0.29 FCC FGD - Sulphur Recovery Unit 2x220 T/D Sour Water Stripper Unit 166 M3/hr