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Haldia Refinery, Technology with Ecology at Heart

Growth Timeline 1976-77 1979

Þ To exploit the waterways as a means of The IndianOil

1967 1968 transporting petroleum products, the First Barge Management
Jetty put into operation in 1976 Academy set
The Haldia- Subsequently, a riverside oil jetty capable to Þ The Lube Oil Block commissioned, consisting of up with
Barauni Product accommodate oil tankers with overall length of 875 Vacuum Distillation Unit, Visbreaker Unit, Bitumen residential training
Pipeline feet and draft of about 34 feet commissioned by Unit and Lube Processing Units such as Propane De- facility at Haldia
commissioned the then Calcutta Port Trust, now Kolkata Port Trust - asphalting (PDA), Furfural Extraction, Solvent De-waxing Renery Township for
the rst step towards the setting up of the petroleum and Hydro Finishing Units imparting techno-
renery at Haldia managerial training
Þ First consignment of Lube Oil Base Stock (LOBS) dispatched from Haldia
programs to the senior
Renery executives of the Corporation
Þ Production & dispatch of "Bright Stock" (a special grade LOBS)

1969

Þ In July, a Memorandum of Agreement signed between Govt. of India and M/s Technip ENSA,
France, for setting up the Fuel Oil Block with capacity of 2.5 million metric tonnes per annum 1980 1982
(MMTPA)
The expansion of Haldia Renery with the The revamped
Þ Subsequently, a Memorandum of Agreement signed between the Govt. of India and M/s commencement of capacity expansion of Propane De-
Industrial Export, Rumania, for setting up the Lube Oil Block (LOB) at Haldia in November Propane De-asphalting Unit of the Lube Asphalting Unit of the
Oil Block for the production of 15000 renery produced 5000
Þ On December 6 the commencement of the journey to a new world of energy began. Dr Triguna Sen,
the then Minister of Petroleum, Chemicals, Mines and Metals, Govt. of India, laid foundation stone of tonnes of cylinder oil in addition to 45000 tonnes of Cylinder Oil
Haldia Renery in the presence of Shri Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, tonnes of “Bright Stock’’ used by the Indian Railways
and Shri Balwant Singh, the then General Manager, Haldia Renery

1974 1975
1984 1986
The glorious Þ Haldia Renery with 2.5 MMTPA capacity 1987
journey of Haldia came into form in the second half of 20th One of the Four-point
major Bulk Two new grades of LOBS,
Renery in century and started operation in January
petroleum rening 1975. The renery in 1975, mainly comprised capacity Bitumen namely, SP (HVI) and
commenced in 1974. the units of fuel oil block (FOB), which included expansion Loading Transformer Oil Feedstock
schemes of the Gantry produced and dispatched on
The tanker MT Netaji Atmospheric Distillation Unit, Naphtha Pre-treating
Subhas of the Shipping Unit and Reforming Unit, Kero-Hydro Desulfurization renery initiated commissioned with commercial basis
Corporation India berthed at Unit along with Gas Separation and Merox Unit Crude Distillation Unit a capacity of 1.3.
Haldia Oil Jetty with 45000 MT of Aghajari Þ Scripted a new chapter by setting the rst milestone in the export of (CDU) revamped to 2.75 MMTPA on November
crude oil on April 28, 1974 MMTPA 19
petroleum products in its operational history

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