In India, there are 23 oil ports. All of the oils we use in our cars come from these oil plants. There are two main types of groups that own these refineries. (i) The government; (ii) the business world. Let me now give you a list of Oil refineries in India. Check out the list below…
What Does an Oil Refinery Do?
There are factories that turn crude oil into products like gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, kerosene, jet fuel oil, and fuel oil. These factories are called oil refineries or petroleum refineries. It’s also better. You don’t need naphtha to make oil from ethylene and propylene. You can go straight from natural oil to oil.
A lot of the time, big, broad industrial complex pumps move fluids between big chemical processing units, like dissolved units, in oil refineries. A lot of the tools used to refine oil are used in different ways. The list of Indian oil plants is below.
Indian Oil Refineries on a List:
I’m going to list the oil plants in India along with the companies that own them. Check out the list below…
- The Digboi Refinery in Assam was built in 1901 by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
- Pune Refinery, Pune, Maharashtra, 1954 Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
- Madras Refinery, Mumbai, 1955, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
- The Visakhapatnam Refinery in Andhra Pradesh was built in 1957 by the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.
- The Guwahati Refinery in Assam was built in 1962 by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited built the Barauni Refinery in Bihar in 1964.
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited built the Gujarat Refinery in 1965.
- The Kochi refinery in Kerala was built in 1966 by the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited.
- The Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited built the Manali Refinery in Tamil Nadu in 1969.
- The Haldia Refinery in West Bengal was built in 1975 by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
- The Bongaigaon Refinery in Assam was built in 1979 by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited built the Mathura Refinery in Uttar Pradesh in 1982.
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited launched the Panipat Refinery in Haryana in 1987.
- Bangalore Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (15) Bangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (15) Bangalore in 1988
- The Numaligarh Refinery Limited in Assam was built in 1993 by Oil India and the government of Assam.
- The Nagapattinam Refinery in Tamil Nadu was built in 1993 by the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited.
- Reliance Industries Limited built the Jamnagar Refinery in Gujarat Jamnagar (SEZ) in 1998.
- The Jamnagar Refinery in Gujarat (DTA) was built by Reliance Industries Limited in 1999.
- The Tatupaka Refinery in Andhra Pradesh was built in 2001 by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation for $0.07 crore. The Essar Refinery in Gujarat was built in 2006 by Nayara Energy Limited for 20 crore. The Bina Refinery in Madhya Pradesh was built in 2011 by Bharat Oman Refineries Limited for 6 crore. The Guru Gobind Singh Refinery in Punjab was built in 2011 by
- 2012: Hindustan Natural Gas Limited and Hindustan Mittal Energy Limited
- The Paradip Refinery in Odisha was built in 2016 by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited.