Bhubaneswar, Jan 25: An exhibition on country’s 23rd refinery and IndianOil’s 11th refinery at Paradip opened in the city on Sunday displaying the extraordinary execution of the 15-MMTPA refinery project at Paradip.
The exposition highlights as to how during the construction, the Indian Oil team of engineers faced the nature’s fury such as cyclone ‘Phailin’ and Hudhud.
It highlights how the refinery infrastructure or the labour colonies escaped without major damages due to world-class engineering and construction standards.
The visitors get a glimpse of the nearly 40,000 labourers and engineers braved the fury of nature during the construction.The state of the art construction has also been put on view as also the growth of IndianOil over the past years.
Inaugurating the exhibition, Indian Oil Director (Refineries) Sanjiv Singh said that the refinery shall be playing a critical role in the growth of the region, spurring trade-related activities.
The refinery is configured for processing high sulphur heavy crude oils with major secondary processing units like Fluidized Catalytic Cracker (FCC, i.e., INDMAX technology of Indian Oil R&D), Delayed Coking Unit (DCU) for coke production, besides Diesel Hydro-treatment and Catalytic Reformer, Alkylation unit, Merox, etc., for quality up gradation of products, he said.Executive Director (In-Charge) Ramji Ram, GM (Odisha State Office) KK Sharma present on the occasion.
The refinery, to be dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 7, lies about five km south west of Paradip Port.
Nearly 2,366 acres of the land has been reclaimed through dredging and filling of 27.4 million cubic metres of earth.
It has about one lakh piles of varying sizes with maximum diameter of 1400 mm & depth of 40 metres.; 11.6 Lakh M3 (3-times the volume used for Burj Khalifa, Dubai) of concrete (RCC & PCC); 2.8 lakh metric tonnes (equivalent to 30 Eiffel Towers (France) or about 350 Rajdhani Express Trains (India) of structural steel work (including Tor Steel); almost 2,400 km of pipelines network (nearly the 2,525 km length of river Ganges of India); about 3,300 numbers of static and rotary equipment; and 20,000 km of electrical and instrumentation cables are running across the refinery, which is equivalent to 1.8 times the diameter of the earth.
More than 100 units of mobile, crawlers and truck cranes have been used to erect the major individual process units.
To ensure the spirit of inclusive growth, the refinery administration has invested in the growth and development projects in the surrounding region.
As part of major initiatives for skill development, around 30 people have been sent for skill development training at CIPET, BBSR, and major skill development centre shall soon come up for the benefit of the local people.
