A 15-member task force identified new location about 6 km away from Pachpadra in Barmer district of Rajasthan for the proposed Rs 37,230 crore refinery cum petro-chemical complex to be set up by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation.
The new location is found to be qualitatively better than Leelala which was proposed earlier and the former is most suitable as per HPCL’s Techno Commercial, Technical and non-tangible reports.
The state government set up the 15-member task force headed by Chief Secretary CK for implementing the project. About 11000 beegha land may be required for the project.
HPCL would implement the project, which was earlier conceptualised by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). Initially, ONGC, which has a stake in Cairn India’s Barmer oil block, had come up with the plan to build a refinery in the region.
After foundation laying ceremony, HPCL is expected to begin work on the refinery unit with a capacity to process 9 million tonne of crude oil per annum.
This would be the first refinery in Rajasthan and it may go on stream in four years. Some months ago, the Rajasthan government had signed a memorandum of understanding with HPCL for setting up a refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in the Barmer region.
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