Overview

Essar's oil refinery at Vadinar in Jamnagar, Gujarat, is ideally located on India's West Coast in close proximity to the crude rich Gulf States. Vadinar is an all-weather deep-draft natural port. About 70% 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.

The refinery is operating at a capacity of 240,000 barrels per day (12 MTPA) with an investment of close to USD 2.2 billion. Essar Oil is in the process of increasing this refining capacity to 680,000 barrels per day (34 MTPA). The refinery has been built with 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 world-class refinery produces middle distillates like aviation turbine fuel, kerosene oil and high-speed diesel, as well as LPG and transport fuels conforming to Euro III and Euro IV product quality standards. Post expansion the refinery will have a Nelson Complexity of 12.8 with capability of processing tougher crudes and producing petroleum products of very high quality, meeting Euro V standards.

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

The refinery has built-in environment friendly technologies for pollution management. A self-sustainable, 700-acre greenbelt, with over 3 lakh saplings, has been developed to ensure a green corridor around the entire refinery complex.