Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan flagged off the first dispatch of consignment of products from the Paradip Refinery of the IndianOil comprising high speed diesel, superior kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas (lPG) on Sunday.
With the commissioning of a few of its process units, the IndianOil is now ready to supply products in small quantities from its 15-MMTPA state-of-the-art Paradip Refinery. Built at a cost of `34,555 crore, the refinery is designed to process broad basket of crude including cheaper high sulfur heavy crudes and with an overall Nelson complexity factor of 12.2.
The whole refinery complex would become fully operational in an integrated manner soon.