Guru Gobind Singh Refinery Project

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Summary Information

• Ownership: HMEL
• Website: http://www.hmel.in/
• Wiki Page: Guru Gobind Singh Refinery
• Location: Bathinda, Punjab, India
• Capacity: 9.0 million tons/annum & 180,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Project Stage: Completed
• Expected Completion: 2011
• Budget:

The Project

• Project Type: Greenfield Refinery
• Project Summary: The Guru Gobind Singh Refinery will be a zero bottoms, energy efficient, environment- friendly, high distillate yielding complex refinery that will be producing clean fuels and polypropylene by processing heavy, sour and acidic crudes.
• Main Contractors:
  • Engineers India Limited (EIL) is managing the engineering, procurement and construction for the refinery project.
  • Toyo India: Detailed Engineering, Construction Management and Procurement Services for the Sulphur Recovery Plant

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation
• Delayed Coker
• Fluidised Catalytic Cracker
• Continuous Catalytic Reformer
• Diesel Hydrotreater Unit
• Vacuum Gas Oil - Hydrotreater Unit
• Sulphur Recovery Unit - 2 X 300 TPD

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Crude is to be supplied by a cross-country Crude Oil Pipeline (approx. 1014 km) from Mundra to Bathinda traversing through the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana

Products Produced

• Liquid Products : Motor Spirit, High Speed Diesel, Superior Kerosene Oil, Aviation Turbine Fuel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Naphtha, Hexane, Mineral Turpentine Oil.
• Solid Products : Pet Coke, Sulphur and Polypropylene.

History

• 2005 - BP & HPCL sign agreement to build the refinery
• 2006 - BP leaves the project and is replaced by Mittal
• 2007 - the Punjab government put the long-delayed Guru Gobind Singh refinery project at Bhatinda back on track by signing a deed of assurance with the main contractor Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL).
• 2007 - Financial closure reached on loan agreements for the project
• 2011 - The Bhatinda refinery, received its maiden crude cargo from Saudi Arabia at the Mundra port on March 31
• 2011 - Trial processing starts
• 2012 - Opening ceremony held

Other Information

• The partners are planning an IPO

Relevant Links

• BP and HPCL Sign Letter of Intent to Form a Refining and Marketing Joint Venture in India
• Guru Gobind Singh Refinery, Bhatinda, Punjab, India, Hydrocarbons Technology
• Sulphur Recovery Project on EPCM Basis for HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd, Bhatinda Refinery
• HPCL, Mittal plan IPO for Bathinda refinery in FY11
• India's HMEL set to commission 9 million mt/year Bhatinda refinery
• Engineers India expects Aug Bathinda refinery start
• Crude oil processing starts on trial basis at Bathinda refinery
• GGSRL- A Joint Venture of HPCL and Mital Investment achieves financial closure

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