Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) has lined up projects worth up to Rs 15,000 crore in coming years, which include a raw petroleum coke gas complex. The company intended to produce ‘Syngas’ (synthetic gas) and subsequently to produce value-added chemicals, such as urea (fertiliser), acetic acid, acryilate among others and production of linear alkyl benzene (LAB) - a feed stock to produce detergents.
MRPL is engaged in the business of refining crude oil. It offers high speed diesel oil, fuel oil and motor spirit. It operates as a subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Mangalore, Karnataka.