Reliance commissions ethane facility

MUMBAI, April 20, 2017 – India’s Reliance Industries said on Wednesday it had completed its Ethane Project at the Dahej Manufacturing Facility in Gujarat, including ethane receipt and handling facilities, as well as a cracker.

The company labelled the endeavour the largest and most complex project of its kind on the planet, and said that it had been completed in under three years, “a world record time.”

“Reliance is the first company to globally conceptualize large-scale imports of ethane from North America as feedstock for its cracker portfolio in India,” the firm said in a statement.

“The project involved […] securing ethane refrigeration capacity in the US Gulf coast; delivery of dedicated Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLECs) to carry ethane from the US Gulf Coast to the West Coast of India; construction of ethane receipt and handling facilities; laying pipelines and upgrading crackers….”

All of its three manufacturing facilities, at Dahej, Hazira and Nagothane, had started to receive ethane, the statement added.

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