Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) has commissioned crude and vacuum distillation Unit-III (CDU/VDU-III) on March29, 2012. With the commissioning of the said unit, the company’s production goes on stream from the phase-III refinery expansion-cum-up-gradation project.
Thus, the name plate capacity of MRPL Refinery goes up to 15MMTPA from 11.82MMTPA.
MRPL was a joint venture oil refinery promoted by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL), a public sector company and IRIL & Associates (AV Birla Group). It has a design capacity to process 9.69 million metric tonnes per annum and is the only refinery in India to have two hydrocrackers producing Premium Diesel (High Cetane).
