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Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd's 3 MMTPA Delayed Coker Unit go online

The 3.00 MMTPA Delayed Coker Unit (DCU), a secondary processing facility of the phase-III upgradation and expansion project of Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd, went on stream today. DCU will convert short residue (bottoms) which is low value product into high value products such as gasoil, naphtha, LPG. MRPL will market balance 30 Percent of the product, that is, pet-coke from this unit, widely used in cement industry.

The demand for pet-coke is growing at a rate of 8.5 CAGR in India. The DCU has been built with an investment of about INR 1170 crore with technology supplied by Lummus Technology and built by Toyo Engineers Ltd and Punj Lloyd. With the commissioning of DCU, the fuel production from MRPL will come down drastically and will increase the distillate yield. This is expected to improve top and bottom lines of MRPL adding value to shareholders.

There was some delay in commissioning of the unit due to non availability of steam and power from the power plant of phase III on a sustained basis. The crude unit, diesel hydrotreater and hydrogen units of MRPL's phase III project with an outlay of INR 12,160 crore have been already under operation for the past 1-1/2 to 2 years. In August 2013 SPM was made operational and the first VLCC carrier was received on March 18, 2014.

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