Essar oil has successfully commissioned new Vacuum Gas Oil Hydrotreating Unit (VGOHDT) and Sulphur Recovery Unit (SRU) at its Vadinar Refinery. Following this milestones, delayed coker unit is the only expansion unit that remains to be commissioned as part of Essar oil’s Rs 8300 crore phase I expansion project.
The project is now just days away from being fully completed which will expand the capacity of the refinery to 18 MMTPA (375000 barrels per day) and enhance complexity to 11.80 (from 6.10 currently), which is amongst the highest in the world.
The SRU will help the refinery to recover 99.9% of sulphur in acid generated from the ARU (Amine Regenerated Unit) and the SWS (Sour Water Stripper), two units that have already been commissioned.
