Essar oil jumps on commissioning VGOHDT and SRU at Vadinar refinery

21 Mar 2012 Evaluate

Essar oil is currently trading at Rs. 56.95, up by 2.25 points or 4.11% from its previous closing of Rs. 54.70 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 55.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 57.40 and Rs. 54.25 respectively. So far 651186 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 147.80 on 11-Apr-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 44.80 on 18-Jan-2012.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 59.20 and Rs. 53.10 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 7736.50 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 15.96% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 4.22% and 5.83% respectively. 

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.

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