Bharat Oman Refineries Limited (BORL) which is under the

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of the

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. It owns and operates Bina Refinery, located at Bina in the Bina-etawa district of the state of

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in India. The company was incorporated as a joint venture between

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian Public Sector Undertakings in India, central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. It operates three refineries in ...

(BPCL) and Oman Oil Company Ltd (now OQ). Since 2021, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of BPCL. The Bina Refinery was commissioned in 11 May 2011 with an annual capacity of 6 million

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s. The capacity of the refinery was further enhanced to 7.8 million tonnes per year in 2018.

History

Bharat Oman Refineries Limited (BORL) was incorporated in 1994 as a public limited company with equal equity participation of

Bharat Petroleum Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. It operates three refineries in Bina, Kochi and Mumbai. BPCL is ...

and Oman Oil Company Ltd (now OQ). Work on the refinery at Bina however began only in 2006. The project faced significant delays on account of environmental clearances and poor infrastructure and suffered from severe cost overruns that saw its cost of establishment increasing from a budgeted 6,300 crore to 91 billion. Following these delays and cost overruns, the Omani company initially dropped out of the project but subsequently decided to be a minority stake holder in the project holding 26% equity. The refinery which was to have been commissioned in 2009 was finally inaugurated in May 2011 by Prime Minister

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. One percent of the plant's equity is held by the

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. The refinery is expected to create 5,000 jobs for Local peoples of district who comes to its criteria after then state so that they boost tax revenues for the state government.

Capacity

The BORL refinery has a current installed capacity of processing 7.8 million tonnes of

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per annum (MTPA) or 156,000 barrels per day. The refinery also consists of a

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hydrotreater, a catalytic reformer to produce gasoline, a

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, a diesel hydrotreater and a

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. The capacity at the refinery is to be augmented to 7.8 MTPA and is to reach a final capacity of 15 MTPA by 2022–23. Refinery has consistently delivered environmentally compliant products since its inception, qualities of some of the products are better than the upcoming BS VI specifications envisaged through Auto Fuel Policy. BORL is a future ready refinery and the debottlenecking project will further strengthen refinery configuration to deliver premium quality fuel in line with stringent norms of the country. Exports of naphtha from the refinery began in 2012. The plant is equipped to produce

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and Euro IV petroleum products and is capable of producing

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petroleum products with minimal additional investment.

Pipelines

The Bina refinery uses a

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system at Vadinar in Gujarat to facilitate the unloading of imported crude oil from large crude carriers. The crude is transported through a 935-km long pipeline from Vadinar to Bina. The products of the refinery are then transported through the 257- km Bina- Kota pipeline where it joins the Mumbai-

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- Bijwasan pipeline to reach the markets of

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Consolidation

The government decided to consolidate the businesses of BPCL before privatization. On 31 March 2021, BPCL announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire a 36.6% stake held by OQ (formerly known as Oman Oil Company) for giving it complete control over Bharat Oman Refinery Limited.

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