World’s largest refinery ‘Off Gas Cracker’ was launched by RIL

RIL commissions world’s largest gas cracker complex

Question: Where did the world’s largest refinery ‘Off Gas Cracker’ was recently launched by Reliance Industries?
(a) Jamnagar
(b) Appearance
(c) Gandhinagar
(d) Vadodara
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:

  • On January 2nd, 2018, Reliance Industries launched the world’s largest refinery off Gas Cracker (ROGC) in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
  • The refinery capacity will be 1.5 MMTPA with downstream plants and utilities.
  • ROGC Complex is a major component of Reliance Industries’ most innovative and world-class J3 project, which is located in the Integrated Refinery Petrochemicals Complex in Jamnagar.
  • It is important that Reliance Industries has doubled its ethylene capacity globally and has joined the prestigious league of Top 5 Petrochemical Products.
  • ROGC is a unique structure of the complex that uses ‘off-gases’ as a feedstom from two Reliance refineries in Jamnagar.
  • This innovative approach to integration with refineries provides a permanent cost benefit.
  • In relation to tax, the same feedstock cost advantage is in the Middle East and North America.
  • ROGC has now come in respect to them.
  • ROGC is the latest version of the current Cracker Portfolio of ‘Reliance Industries’.
  • Before this RIL had the cracker facility was only in Nagothane in Maharashtra and in Hazira, Dahej and Vadodara in Gujarat.

Reference:
http://www.ril.com/getattachment/448b3f3b-f845-44a3-b711-5d926107ddff/RIL-commissions-the-world%E2%80%99s-largest-refinery-off-g.aspx
http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/ril-commissions-world-s-largest-refinery-off-gas-cracker-at-jamnagar-118010200742_1.html
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/ril-commissions-worlds-largest-gas-cracker-complex/article10009061.ece
https://www.indiainfoline.com/article/news-top-story/ril-commissions-world%E2%80%99s-largest-refinery-off-gas-cracker-at-jamnagar-118010300070_1.html