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| state = [[Gujarat]]<br />
| city = [[Jamnagar]]<br />
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| owner = [[Reliance Industries Limited]]<br />
| founded = {{Start date|df=yes|14 July 1999}}<br />
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| capacity = 60 MMTPA in FY 2017-18<br />
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The '''Jamnagar Refinery''' is a private sector crude oil [[Oil refinery|refinery]] owned by [[Reliance Industries Limited]] in [[Jamnagar]], [[Gujarat]], India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of {{convert|668000|oilbbl/d}}. It is currently the largest refinery in the world.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/reliance-commissions-worlds-biggest-refiner/402999 | title=Reliance commissions world’s biggest refinery | newspaper=[[The Indian Express]] | date=26 December 2008 | access-date=9 January 2019 }}<br />
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==History==<br />
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On 25 December 2008, Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL) announced the commissioning of its refinery into a Special Economic Zone in Jamnagar district of Gujarat, India. The completion of the RPL refinery has enabled Jamnagar to emerge as a 'Refinery land', housing the world's largest refining complex with an aggregate refining capacity of {{convert|1.24|Moilbbl|m3}} of oil per day, more than any other single location in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ril.com/html/business/refining_marketing.html |title=Growth through Energy Products |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227141455/http://ril.com/html/business/refining_marketing.html |archive-date=2007-02-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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The globally competitive RPL refinery was commissioned in 36&nbsp;months. RPL contracted several companies having expertise in engineering construction and refining like [[Bechtel]], [[UOP LLC]] and [[Foster Wheeler]] amongst others. There were plans for the pipeline to process High Pour Point crude oil extracted at Barmer, [[Rajasthan]], although this would require an electrically heated traced pipeline to be set up from [[Barmer district|Barmer]] to Jamnagar.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cairn India starts work on Barmer-Jamnagar pipeline project|url=https://www.projectstoday.com/News/Cairn-India-starts-work-on-Barmer-Jamnagar-pipeline-project|access-date=2020-10-31|website=www.projectstoday.com}}</ref><br />
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The entire complex, as of 2013, consists of manufacturing and allied facilities, utilities, off-sites, port facilities and a township (415 acres) with housing for its 2,500 employees, on over {{convert|7500|acre|ha sqmi|lk=on}} of land. If all of the pipes used in the refinery were laid out, one after another, they would connect the whole of India from north to south.<ref name="groundreport1">{{cite web|url=http://www.groundreport.com/Business/RIL-s-Jamnagar-Refinery-Listed-Among-The-World-s-T/2948964 |title=RIL’s Jamnagar Refinery Listed Among The World’s Top Five Refineries |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606064256/http://www.groundreport.com/Business/RIL-s-Jamnagar-Refinery-Listed-Among-The-World-s-T/2948964 |archive-date=2013-06-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ril.com/downloads/pdf/about_jamnagar.pdf |title=About Jamnagar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027062343/http://www.ril.com/downloads/pdf/about_jamnagar.pdf |archive-date=2011-10-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Export expansion during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic==<br />
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In 2020, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] the domestic demand for polymer strongly declined in India. As a result, in order to keep production and sales running, [[Reliance Industries Limited]] management decided to refocus the production of polymer on export markets. With the help of the [[Maersk]] shipping and logistics group, exports from the Jamnagar Refinery were quadrupled to over 10,000 x 40' containers, which transported and exported through [[Port Pipavav]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Keeping supply chains moving during COVID-19 | website=Maersk | date=8 July 2020 | url=https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2020/07/08/keeping-supply-chains-moving-during-covid-19 | access-date=2021-04-14}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of oil refineries]]<br />
*[[Petrochemicals]]<br />
*[[Chemical engineering]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Official website|http://www.ril.com}}<br />
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{{Oil refineries in India}}<br />
{{Reliance Group}}<br />
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