Fire breaks out in RIL’s Jamnagar refinery

A fire broke out at Reliance Industries' newly commissioned export-oriented oil refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat.

A fire broke out on Wednesday at Reliance Industries’ newly commissioned export-oriented oil refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat,but there were no casualties as the fire was put out swiftly.

The fire broke out at the coker unit of the 580,000 barrels per day refinery of Reliance Petroleum,a unit of RIL that was commissioned in December 2008.

“There was a minor fire in a section of RPL. This has been contained,localised and brought under control… there has been no casualty,” a company statement said in New Delhi.

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The rest of the refinery was “operating normally and product dispatches continued as scheduled,” the statement said.

Coker is the key driver to the high gross refining margins – the revenue a company earns on converting a barrel of crude oil into fuel – for the company. The delayed coker,as it is known technically,was of the capacity of 200,000 bpd at the RPL refinery.

Coker converts fuel oil into high value products like diesel and naphtha and the incident has the potential of derailing the refinery’s gasoline and gasoil (diesel) production.

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