Refinery to run full throttle by Sept 2011

Refinery to run full throttle by Sept 2011
Rajay Deep
Tribune News Service

Bathinda, December 2
The under construction multi-crore Guru Gobind Singh Refinery located near Rama mandi in the district would start running to its full capacity by September, 2011. Meanwhile, the refinery officials are assuming that the trial run could well begin during the current fiscal, before March 2011.
According to a government spokesperson, the Chief Executing Officer (CEO) of the Guru Gobind Singh Refinery Bathinda, Prabh Dass today called on Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to apprise him about the progress of the prestigious project.
Briefing the deputy CM about the project, the CEO informed that 92 per cent work had already been completed in this nine million metric tonne per annum capacity refinery with a captive power plant of 165 MW.
He said the 1009 km pipeline to carry crude oil from Mundra to Bathinda was also laid and a crude oil terminal had been established in Mundra.
During the meeting, he informed that the refinery being set up at a cost of Rs 18,919 crore would produce LPG, petrol, diesel, ATF, coke, food grade hexane, mineral turpentine oil and polypropylene.
Assuring the trial run of the refinery much before March 31 2011 and full capacity operation by September, 2011, Dass informed Sukhbir that the prestigious project would have propelling effect in attracting industrial investment especially in downstream industries like fertilizers and other allied industries.
He said that presently more than 25,000 engineers and labourers were working day and night to ensure scheduled completion of this project.