Indian Oil keen for developing Haldia refinery into petrochemicals complex

Oil marketing PSU Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is keen to develop its existing refinery in West Bengal Haldia into a petrochemicals complex for sustaining operations profitably, a company official said on Wednesday. Running a standalone refinery is not sustainable in terms of profitability for which it has to be supplemented by a petrochemicals complex, he said. "We want to set up a petrochemicals complex contiguous to the Haldia refinery whose current capacity is 8.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa)", the company official said. IOC has sought land from Haldia Fertiliser Corporation (HFC), whose factory is lying defunct, for developing the petrochemicals complex, he said. "We have sought 175 acres of land from HFC. It is near the refinery and it has been given on lease by Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) to the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers ministry. We are seeking the land for the petrochemicals project", the IOC official said. Drawing an analogy, the official said the Paradip ..

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