INDIA APPROVES BIG PETCHEM PROJECT

India's government has approved a $2.325 billion petrochemical complex at Jageshwar in the Gandhar area of Bharuch district, Gujarat state. The integrated gas cracker complex would use ethane and propane feedstock from a mix of associated and nonassociated gas streams produced in Gandhar oil fields being developed by Oil & Natural Gas Commission.

April 6, 1992

India's government has approved a $2.325 billion petrochemical complex at Jageshwar in the Gandhar area of Bharuch district, Gujarat state.

The integrated gas cracker complex would use ethane and propane feedstock from a mix of associated and nonassociated gas streams produced in Gandhar oil fields being developed by Oil & Natural Gas Commission.

The complex will have annual capacities of 300,000 metric tons of ethylene, 38,000 tons of propylene, 115,000 tons of chlorine, 130,000 tons of caustic soda, 170,000 tons of vinyl chloride monomer, 150,000 tons of polyvinyl chloride, 120,000 tons of ethylene oxide, 38,000 tons of monoethylene glycol, and 100,000 tons of alpha olefins, primary alcohols, and alcohol ethoxylates.