Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily and Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers Srikant Jena visited the Indian Oil Corporation ltd’s (IOCl) Paradip Refinery Project and reviewed its progress on Saturday.
They arrived by a helicopter and were greeted by Paradip Port Trust Chairman Sudhanshu Sekhara Mishra, president of Eastern India Oil Refinery Workers’ Union Santosh Pattnaik, Paradip town Congress leader Pramod Kishore Jena and Paradip Youth Congress president Manoj Behera.
Dr Moily inaugurated the project’s main control room and visited the atmospheric vacuum distillation unit, fluid catalytic cracking unit and crude and product tankage area. Addressing IndianOil employees, Dr Moily assured of all support to complete the project. Indian Oil Chairman RS Butola said the 15-MMTPA refinery would take the Indian Oil group refining capacity to over 80 MMTPA. Rajya Sabha Congress member Rama Chandra Khuntia and Congress MlA Prasad Harichandan also accompanied the Union Ministers.