Indian Oil opens exhibit on Paradip Refinery
An exhibition on country’s 23rd refinery and IndianOil’s 11th refinery at Paradip opened in the city last January 27, 2016. The exhibition located on Janpath at Saheed Nagar Puja ground in Paradip, displays the execution of the 15-MMTPA refinery project on the sea shore of Paradip.
Visitors will learn about these special construction efforts and the world-class technology installed in the refinery as well as the growth of IndianOil over the last 50 years and more.
Shri Sanjiv Singh, Director (Refineries), IndianOil, said that the refinery shall be playing a critical role in the growth of the region, spurring trade-related activities. He also added that the refinery is configured for processing high sulphur heavy crude oils with major secondary processing units like Fluidized Catalytic Cracker (FCC, i.e., INDMAX technology of IndianOil R&D), Delayed Coking Unit (DCU) for coke production, besides Diesel Hydro-treatment and Catalytic Reformer, Alkylation unit, Merox, etc., for quality upgradation of products.
The refinery that lies at about 5 km south west of Paradip Port, is divided into two parts by a water body named Santra Creek. Nearly 2,366 acres of the land has been reclaimed with dredging and filling of 27.4 million cubic metres of earth.
The volume and quantity of construction material that has been used to build this refinery from ground up is staggering, it includes about 1 lakh piles of varying sizes with maximum diameter of 1400 mm & depth of 40 metres.; 11.6 Lakh M3 (3-times the volume used for Burj Khalifa, Dubai) of concrete (RCC & PCC); 2.8 lakh metric tonnes (equivalent to 30 Eiffel Towers (France) or about 350 Rajdhani Express Trains (India) of structural steel work (including Tor Steel); almost 2,400 km of pipelines network (nearly the 2,525 km length of river Ganges of India); about 3,300 numbers of static and rotary equipment; and 20,000 km of electrical and instrumentation cables are running across the refinery, which is equivalent to 1.8 times the diameter of the earth. More than 100 units of mobile, crawlers and truck cranes have been used to erect the major individual process units.