IndianOil’s Paradip Refinery Project authorities are all set to commission its first phase operations from September 2013.
Meanwhile, nearly 92 per cent construction works have been completed. The 15-MMTPA (million metric tonne per annum) Paradip Refinery project is being constructed with a budget of Rs 29,777 crore, official sources said.
In physical terms the Paradip Refinery Project has completed 2,366 acres of land reclamation, 1 lakh pilings, 10.8 lakh cubic meters of concreting while 2.6 lakh metric tonne of structural steel has been used, 43 lakh inch dia piping fabrication and 78 lakh inch meter piping fabrication has been completed.
Similarly, 1,442 km of electrical and instrumentation cabling has been completed, 79 tanks and mounded bullets have been installed for crude, intermediate and products.
In numbers and equipments, PDRP has cumulatively achieved 2600 major equipment erections, sources added.
Meanwhile, Sanjiv Singh has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the refinery project at Paradip, the largest greenfield project in India. He is scheduled to join the new office in a few days.
Prior to his current assignment, Singh was the Executive Director of IndianOil’s Refinery and Petrochemical Complex at Panipat in Haryana.