The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Rameswar Teli in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today informed that the there are total 23 refineries in the country including in Maharashtra consisting of 19 set up by Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), 1 by a Joint Venture Company and 3 by Private Companies with a total refining capacity of 249.22 million metric tons per annum (MMTPA). Out of these 23 refineries, 8 refineries are integrated with Petrochemicals as per the details given as below:

 

S.No.	Company name	State	Location	Refining   capacity   (MMTPA)
1	Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)	Gujarat	Koyali	13.70
2		Haryana	Panipat	15.00
3		Odisha	Paradip	15.00
4	HPCL-Hindustan Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL)	Punjab	Bathinda	11.30
5	Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)	Kerala	Kochi	15.50
6	ONGC-Mangalore Refineries & Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL)	Karnataka	Mangalore	15.00
7	Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)	Gujarat	Jamnagar   (DTA)	33.00
8		Gujarat	Jamnagar   (SEZ)	35.20

 

There is no proposal from Oil Companies to setup any petrochemical refinery or petrochemical complex at Nagpur or Ramtek. Petrochemical refinery or petrochemical complex is setup at a location by companies considering techno-economic viability based on various factors like availability of crude oil, encumbrance free land, water and power resources, marketing feasibility of products, connectivity, technology, characteristics of land and soil, etc.

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