MOSCOW (MRC) -- Haldia Petrochemicals Limited (HPL) is seeking additional land from the West Bengal government for setting up an upstream refinery plant in order to reduce the imports of primary feedstock naphtha, as per Plastemart.
"We want to set up an upstream refinery plant here and we are getting ready for that. We seek more land for the project," the company's Executive Vice President and head of the plant Ashok Kumar Ghosh said. HPL used to procure about 20% of its naphtha requirement from the refinery here. "The refinery (at Haldia) can supply up to 20% of our requirement even if it (refinery) runs in full capacity. We are importing the rest of our naphtha requirement from Gulf countries. This is a huge penalty for our plant," he said.
As MRC informed earlier, in the first week of May 2017, HPL brought on-stream its HDPE/LLDPE swing plant at the petrochemical complex located in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. The plant was restarted following an unplanned outage. The company had encountered technical glitch at the LLDPE line of the swing plant and was shut in end-February 2017.
Located at Haldia in the eastern Indian state of west Bengal, the complex can produce 700,000 mt/year of ethylene and 350,000 mt/year of propylene and provides feedstock to a 330,000 mt/year high density PE plant, a 370,000 mt/year HDPE/linear low PE swing plant and a 350,000 mt/year polypropylene unit.
Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd is a modern naphtha based petrochemical complex at Haldia, West Bengal, India. Haldia has played the role of a catalyst in emergence of more than 500 downstream processing industries in West Bengal with a capacity to process more than 3,50,000 TPA of polymers, among which are polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).