Friday, January 26, 2018

INDUSTRY SPECIAL .....World’s Largest Refinery Off-Gas Cracker Complex Commissioned by Reliance Industries

World’s Largest Refinery Off-Gas Cracker Complex Commissioned by Reliance Industries

The ROGC complex is a core component of RIL’s most innovative and world-scale J3 project at its integrated Refinery-Petrochemicals complex at Jamnagar, Gujarat in India.  share me
With a capacity of 1.5 MMTPA, the complex has incorporated feedstock integration with Jamnagar refineries in Gujarat to provide sustainable cost advantage over global peers.
Mumbai/India – Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has successfully commissioned and achieved design throughput of the world’s first ever and largest Refinery Off-Gas Cracker (ROGC) complex of 1.5 MMTPA capacity along with downstream plants and utilities. The ROGC complex is a core component of RIL’s most innovative and world-scale J3 project at its integrated Refinery-Petrochemicals complex at Jamnagar, Gujarat in India.
With the commissioning of ROGC complex, the largest ever expansion of the company’s petrochemicals portfolio comes to a flawless completion. This is one of the largest capital expenditure programme globally in the sector in recent times. It epitomises the company’s core strategy of continuously pursuing opportunities for cost optimisation and efficiency enhancement through vertical integration across the value chain.
The ROGC complex has a unique configuration as it uses off-gases from RIL’s two refineries at Jamnagar as feedstock. This innovative approach of integration with refineries provides a sustainable cost advantage, making ROGC competitive with respect to the crackers in Middle-East and North America which have feedstock cost advantage. ROGC design is highly flexible and energy efficient. Given the complexities of such a plant, the start-up has been flawless adhering to the most stringent safety and technical integrity standards globally.
ROGC is the latest addition to RIL’s existing cracker portfolio, consisting of cracker facilities at Nagothane in Maharashtra and Hazira, Dahej and Vadodara in Gujarat.
01/08/2018 | Editor: Ahlam Rais

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