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New feat for HPCL Visakh Refinery

Special Correspondent

Highest-ever monthly crude processing for March 2006

VISAKHAPATNAM: The HPCL Visakh Refinery has achieved the highest-ever monthly crude processing for March 2006 and with this reached the target.

It has exceeded its installed capacity of 7.5 million tonnes per annum of crude processing for the third consecutive year, according to a spokesman of HPCL.

The refining of crude is the general yardstick for refinery performance and this increased from November with the processing of 680,000 tonnes of crude to 830 tonnes, a quantum jump of nearly 35 per cent over design capacity.

Major project

"The achievement is without any compromise on safety and environmental aspects and in a manner that Team Visakh Refinery would be proud of,'' he claimed.

Visakh Refinery was also undertaking a major project - clean fuels project. The completion of this would allow the refinery to supply Euro IV fuels along with the required Euro III/Euro II grade fuels, the spokesman said. The refinery was pursuing the plans for expansion to 15 tonnes of crude processing, production of mixed xylenes - a petochemical feedstock, developing infrastructure and SBM (single buoy mooring) for crude receipt by very large crude carriers which would bring in substantial savings in its freight cost, he said.

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