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Mukesh Ambani, CMD, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is enhancing its gasoline and diesel exports after restarting units which were shut for maintenance. Reliance Industries, owner of the world's largest oil-refining complex, shipped about 195,000 metric tons of gasoline in the first week of November from its operations in Jamnagar, western India. That compares with about 250,000 tons in all of September. RIL also exported about 443,000 tons of diesels as of 8th November, compared with about 1.7 million tons in October and 1.2 million tons in September.
Reliance Industries restarted a crude-distillation unit and coker at one of its two Jamnagar refineries on 17th November after shutting them in the last week of October. A 100,000 barrel-a-day vacuum gasoil unit, which produces fuels such as gasoline and diesel, was offline for about three months from early May to September. Reliance exported 1.05 million tons of gasoline in July and August combined, while 2.01 million tons of diesels were shipped overseas in the same period. The two plants at Jamnagar are capable of processing 1.2 million barrels a day of crude, making enough fuel to meet about 75 percent of the U.K.'s consumption.
Reliance's Jamnagar facility in India's western state of Gujarat is centered on two refineries, a 580,000 barrel-a-day plant completed in December 2008 and an older 660,000 barrel-a- day unit. The plants can process a combined 1.24 million barrels of oil a day, or about 1.6 percent of global refining capacity. Reliance Industries imports of crude are also headed for an increase, with the company importing about 1.7 million tons in the first week of November, compared with nearly 3.7 million tons for all of October
