Reliance Industries raises Linde's Jamnagar expansion deal by 50% to €700 million

11-Nov-13

Reliance Industries’ ongoing refinery expansion project at Jamnagar includes plans to produce synthetic gas from coal. RIL has significantly raised the scope and worth of its earlier pact with Munich-based Linde AG, parent of industrial gases producer Linde India, by 50% to €700 million (about Rs 5,900 crore). In a deal signed in April, Linde’s engineering division would supply four large air separation units for the production of gaseous oxygen and another two to produce high-purity oxygen to the ethylene glycol facilities in Jamnagar. To treat the synthesis gas generated during this gasification process, Linde would also deliver two acid gas removal units. Reliance is also building one of the world’s largest ethylene crackers taking advantage of refinery integration at Jamnagar. This project will be commissioned in H2-2016 and would nearly double the ethylene capacity to 3.3 mln tpa.