Jamnagar refinery
The Jamnagar complex, the largest refinery in the world, is located in Gujarat State on the West Coast of India.
It is owned and operated by Reliance Industries
The refinery was built in two phases at a single site, but are legally two separate entities with one focusing on the export market and one on the domestic market
Refinery configuration
Jamnagar is both very large and very complex, with a full array of conversion units, most of them some of the largest individual units in the world.
Complexity: 11.8
Jamnagar is a very large and complex refinery, with multiple delayed cokers for bottoms conversion, along with FCCs and hydrocracking.
Major process units:
Atmospheric distillation - 1,400 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 2 units
Coker - 2 delayed cokers, both AMEC Foster Wheeler with 8 drums each
Hydrocracker - 1 unit
FCC - 2 units
Alkylation - 1 sulfuric acid unit
C5/C6 Isomerization - 1 unit
Reformer - Continuous (CCR) unit
Distillate hydrotreater - 2 units
VGO hydrotreater - 2 units
Aromatics extraction - 2 units
Asphalt plant - 1 unit
Refinery history
2000 - First refinery commissioned with 668 kbpd of capacity
2008 - Second refinery completed, raising total capacity to over 1,200 kbpd