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Haldia Refinery, Technology with Ecology at Heart

Nascent Beginnings
A New Chapter Unfolds

Do You Know?
aldia Renery, the fourth renery of Indian Oil Corporation
HLtd., is located in the East Midnapore district of West Bengal Haldia Renery is
at the conuence of the Haldi and Hooghly rivers, 136 km from IndianOil’s rst coastal
Kolkata. The renery, surrounded by landmarks such as renery, strategically
Mahishadal Rajbari, Gopaljew Temple, and Haldia Marine located near the
Drive, was inaugurated by Dr. Triguna Sen, the then Union Bay of Bengal.
Minister for Petroleum & Chemicals. Commissioned in 1975 with
a capacity of 2.5 million metric tons per annum (MMTPA), it was
IndianOil’s rst coastal renery, established with technical
collaboration from M/s. TECHNIP-ENSA of France and M/s.
The humid and marshy terrains on the conuence of rivers Haldi and
Industrial Export of Romania. The renery covers an area of Hoogly that gave the state of West Bengal her first Petroleum Renery
about 612 acres.

The civil construction work in progress to set up the Fuel Oil Block Piling and foundation work of processing units in progress in the backdrop
between 1970 to 1973 of the Tank Farm between 1971 to 1972

Glimpse of civil construction work for building the columns of energy The application of the sandwicking technology for setting up tanks at
Laying of Foundation Stone of Haldia Renery by Dr. Triguna Sen, the then Minister of Petroleum, Chemicals, Mines & Metals, Government of India Haldia Renery site

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