Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is likely to start process of land acquisition for its proposed Rs 6,800 crore capacity expansion project at refinery unit. In this regard, the company has received directives from the Gujarat government to purchase private land.
The state-run refiner will invest Rs 5,000 crore to increase its overall capacity to 18 million tonnes from the present 13.7 million tonnes and Rs 1,800 crore to make the end product compliant with the low-sulphur Bharat Stage norms. The expansion will lead to improved distillate yield, thereby enabling production of more value added products from the refinery. The process of negotiations with land owners to acquire a large chunk of land has started.
IOC is the largest enterprise in the country and the foremost ranked Fortune Global 500 Company in India and has presence in the complete hydrocarbon value chain from downstream refining & marketing, pipeline transportation, Petrochemicals, E&P and Gas Marketing.
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