MOSCOW (MRC) -- Reliance Industries (RIL), in an application to the envi-ronment ministry, said it was planning to increase petrochemical capacity at its Vadodara Manufacturing Division (VMD) in India, through the removal of bottlenecks, as per Apic-online with reference to the Economic Times.
The company produces polybutadiene rubber and emulsion styrene butadiene rubber at Vadodara, according to earlier reports.
The project, estimated to cost Rs 2,270 crore, is expected to add the production of diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, heavy normal paraffin, light normal paraffin, heavy alkylates and heavy aromatics.
Naphtha feedstock will be supplied from RIL's Jamnagar refinery. No other details were available.
"A majority of the offsite and other infrastructure facilities required for the petrochemical manufacturing and production are already available through the existing VMD facility," RIL noted in the application.
"Therefore, the proposed modifications and debottlenecking would result in enhanced production with minimum investment on supporting facilities than that required for setting up new stand-alone production units."
As MRC reported earlier, Saudi Aramco’s Chief Executive Officer Amin Nassar said in February 2019 that the company was in talks with India’s Reliance Industries Ltd for possible investments and is seeking other opportunities in the country.
MRC