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HPCL Rajasthan Refinery. Credit: TATA PROJECTS

India’s Largest Greenfield Refinery-Cum-Petrochemical Complex Advances Toward Operational Milestone.

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) is poised to commence crude oil processing at its 9 million metric tons per annum (MMTPA) Rajasthan refinery in October 2025, marking a critical step in India’s push for energy self-sufficiency. The greenfield refinery-cum-petrochemical complex, located in Pachpadra, Barmer, will be the country’s first new integrated facility in nearly a decade and a cornerstone of its strategy to meet rising fuel and petrochemical demand.

Project Progress and Timeline

• Physical Completion: 82% as of September 2024, with crude pipelines nearing 94% completion.
• Crude Unit Start: October 2025, with phased commissioning of downstream units to follow.
• Full Operations: Expected by December 2025, ramping up to 80% capacity by year-end and full utilization by 2027.
• Petrochemical Integration: Polypropylene, LLDPE, and HDPE units to begin operations in early 2026, three months after refinery startup.

Strategic Configuration and Technology

• Crude Flexibility: Processes a mix of indigenous Rajasthan crude (1.5 MMTPA) and imported Arab medium/heavy grades (7.5 MMTPA), shifting to 100% imported crude after eight years.
• Key Units:
  • Crude Distillation Unit (CDU): 9.0 MMTPA
  • Delayed Coker Unit (DCU): 2.4 MMTPA
  • Petrochemical Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit (PFCCU): 2.9 MMTPA
  • Polypropylene Units: 2 x 490 KTPA (Lummus Novolen technology).
• Licensors: Axens (naphtha hydrotreating, isomerization) and Lummus (polypropylene reactors).

Economic and Environmental Impact

• Investment: ₹72,937 crore ($8.8 billion), with ₹48,625 crore secured via consortium financing.
• Employment: Generated over 50,000 jobs during construction, with 10,000 permanent roles post-commissioning.
• Sustainability: BS-VI compliant fuels, CO₂ recovery systems, and a 17,000-tree plantation drive to combat desertification.
• Market Role: Addresses northern India’s fuel deficit, reducing reliance on imports and positioning India to surpass China in oil demand growth by 2027.

Challenges and Delays

Originally conceptualized in 2013, the project faced delays due to pandemic disruptions, logistical hurdles, and cost escalations. Revised timelines now align with India’s goal to expand refining capacity to 450 MMTPA by 2030.

Future Expansion

HPCL plans to double the refinery’s capacity to 18 MMTPA, leveraging its modular design and existing infrastructure. The expansion will further integrate petrochemical production, targeting 2 MMTPA of specialty chemicals by 2030.

Outlook

The Rajasthan refinery underscores India’s ambition to balance fuel production with high-value petrochemicals, positioning the country as a global refining hub. With commissioning on the horizon, all eyes are on HPCL to deliver a project that could redefine Asia’s energy landscape.

#india  #rajasthan  #refinery  #refining  #crudeoil  #rajasthancrude  #hpcl  #axens  #lummus 

The description of the H-Oil process has been updated.


#axens  #hoil  #hydrocracking  #heavyoil  #residue  #residuum  #crudeoil  #ebullatedbed 

Silleno project has been modelled, with technologies and their respective capacity identified, excepted for the ethylene  dimerization process.
 

#silleno #kazakhstan  #axens  #alphabutol  #cpchem  #martech  #adl  #martechadl  #dualloop  #bimodal  #univation  #unipolpe  #lummus  #steamcracker  #srt  #steamcracking  #gascracker  #ethylene  #polyethylene 

Vegan plant to produce renewable fuels has been added to La Mède Biorefinery.


#vegan  #axens  #renewablediesel  #sustainableaviationfuel  #saf  #biorefining  #biorefinery  #totalenergies  #lamede  #renewablefuels 

Axens' Vegan^® technology to produce renewable diesel (RD) and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through the hydrotreatment of a wide range of vegetable oils and animal fats, including used cooking oil (UCO), has been added.


#vegan  #saf  #sustainableaviationfuel  #renewablediesel  #usedcookingoil  #uso  #axens #sustainability 

Many technologies have been identified and added:

🔹Axen's aromatic complex
🔹Sinopc's DCC and DCC-Plus
🔹Linde's steam cracking
🔹Lummus / UOP's EBOne Ethylbenzene (to be confirmed)
🔹Lummus / UOP's "Classic" Styrene Monomer
🔹 LyondellBasell's Hostalen HDPE
🔹 Lummus' Novolen PP
🔹Axens' Hyvahl
🔹KBR's ROSE (to be confirmed)

Some assumptions haven been made based on technologies reported in 2009. .

There is a lack of reported information details about what happens between the ADUs and the two FCC plants, the technologies employed in the Lube plant (which also has at least one VDU) and the fuel blending plant making 7 million tonnes of the total 10.5 million tonnes of crude oil processing capacity .

The mass balance is also not matching as far as feedstock going into the FCCs is concerned. In case of the aromatics plant, this is a suite of many technologies, with reforming, alkylation, separation, etc but no details are available excepted it is known to be from Axens (formerly HRI).

There is double counting of polypropylene capacity with PP fed into a PP compounding plant (JPP's technology).


#axens  #sinopec  #linde  #lummus  #uop  #lyondellbasell  #kbr  #jpp 

Multiple technologies and productions have been added.

#gasoline #diesel  #jetfuel  #kerosene  #hydrotreatment  #adu  #polypropylene  #axens  #mitsui  #hypol  #R2R  #fcc #delayedcoker  #sydec 


 

Axens Prime-K technology for hydrotreating kerosene into Jet A1 has been added.

#axens  #primek  #kerosene  #jetfuel  #jeta1  #hydrotreating  #hydrotreatment  #hydroprocessing 

Axens Prime-D technology for diesel hydrotreatment has been added.

#axens #hydrotreating  #desulfurization  #diesel  #middledistillate  #primed 

AXENS News, 17^th June 2009, retrieved via the Internet Archive from 3^rd Nov 2011.

Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical LLC (NSRP) has awarded Axens the basic engineering design contracts for some of the units of the new 200,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery which is to be constructed in Thanh Hoa province located in the Northern part of Vietnam.
Axens will supply the following process technologies for the refinery:

R2R™ - Residue Fluidized catalytic cracking (RFCC) unit;

Prime-D™ - Gas Oil desulfurization unit;

Prime-K™ - Kerosene desulfurization unit.

The refinery units will be provided with the latest advanced technologies making this one of the most modern refinery complexes in the world. The facility is scheduled and targeted to be operational in 2013.

The RFCC unit will incorporate advanced features to efficiently crack residue feed to maximize gasoline and propylene production. Polymer-grade propylene will be supplied to a downstream polypropylene unit. Axens’ RFCC is part of the FCC Technology Alliance between Axens, Shaw, Total and IFP.

Axens is a leading provider of clean fuels solutions. Axens’ desulfurization technologies are the benchmark for ultra-low sulfur middle distillate production. Both desulfurization units will employ the latest high activity hydrotreating catalysts and high performance reactor internals.

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R2R, Prime-D, Prime-K are proprietary commercial names of Axens.

Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical LLC
Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Limited Liability Company (NSRP) is a Joint Venture Company formed by Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, Vietnam; Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd, Japan; Kuwait Petroleum Europe B.V., Netherlands and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Japan.

#axens  #rfcc  #nsrp  #vietnam  #gasoline  #propylene  #gasoil  #kerosene  #desulfurization