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

Coker2 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

Location

Medhpur, Lalpur, Motikhavdi, Jamnagar, Gujarat 361142, India

Jamnagar refinery website

Refinery history

2000 - First refinery commissioned with 668 kbpd of capacity

2008 - Second refinery completed, raising total capacity to over 1,200 kbpd