INDIA’S RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LAUNCHES MAJOR REFINERY OFF-GAS CRACKER COMPLEX
January 1st, 2018
India’s Reliance Industries (RIL) has launched operations of what it claims to be the world’s largest refinery off-gas cracker complex, at its integrated refinery-petrochemicals facility at Jamnagar, Gujarat. With a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per annum (MMTPA), the unit will make ethylene to be used in downstream plants to produce mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) and polyethylene (PE). According a Reliance statement, the complex has been built with about 40% lower capital costs compared to the similar projects globally and brings the combined ethylene capacity ...
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