RIL commissions Jamnagar off-gas cracker

Jan. 2, 2018
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has fully commissioned a 1.5 million-tonne/year refinery off-gas cracker (ROGC) as well as associated downstream plants and utilities at its integrated 60 million-tpy refining and petrochemical complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat, India.

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has fully commissioned a 1.5 million-tonne/year refinery off-gas cracker (ROGC) as well as associated downstream plants and utilities at its integrated 60 million-tpy refining and petrochemical complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat, India (OGJ Online, June 9, 2017; July 6, 2012).

Able to crack both ethane and propane, the ROGC complex uses off gases from RIL’s two Jamnagar refineries to produce ethylene and propylene as feedstock for a series of recently completed downstream plants at the integrated complex for production of monoethylene glycol, low-density polyethylene, high-density and linear low-density polyethylene, paraxylene, as well as purified terephthalic acid, polyester filament, and polyethylene terephthalate, RIL said on Jan. 2.

Start-up of the ROGC complex, now operating at its design-throughput rate, completes RIL’s $16-billion J3 expansion project at Jamnagar, which aimed to increase production capacity of ethylene and other petroleum products at the site (OGJ Online, June 21, 2016; Feb. 26, 2015).

With the Jamnagar project completed, combined ethylene capacity of RIL’s five manufacturing sites stands at nearly 4 million tpy, the company said.