IOCL adding hydrotreater at Haldia refinery

Sept. 7, 2010
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. has chosen Axens technology for a 1.4 million tonne/year coker gas-oil hydrotreating unit at its Haldia refinery in West Bengal, India.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 7
-- Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. has chosen Axens technology for a 1.4 million tonne/year coker gas-oil hydrotreating unit at its Haldia refinery in West Bengal, India.

The new unit will process light coker gas oil, heavy coker gas oil, and coker naphtha. It also will be able to process straight-run gas oil and straight-run vacuum gas oil.

The refinery’s crude capacity has reached 7.5 million tonnes/year, Axens said.