{"id":142504,"date":"2024-04-03T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/indian-oil-corporation-refinery-in-chennai\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:15:25","slug":"indian-oil-corporation-refinery-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/indian-oil-corporation-refinery-in-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai refinery expansion increases Indian Oil Corporation&#8217;s operating costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has recently announced a 12% upward adjustment in projected costs for<strong> the expansion of its refinery in Chennai<\/strong>, located in the state of Tamil Nadu, bringing the investment to an equivalent of $3.96 billion. In addition, <strong>the corporation has increased its shareholding in the joint venture to 75%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">High production expectations<\/h2>\n\n<p>The shareholding distribution within the Cauvery Basin Refinery and Petrochemicals (CBRPL) alliance, aimed at <strong>building a refinery with a capacity of 180,000 barrels per day in Chennai by 2025<\/strong>, has also been modified. Prior to this adjustment, both IOC and its subsidiary Chennai Petroleum (CPCL) each held 25% of the shares, leaving the remaining 50% distributed among other partners. The new shareholding structure now has<strong> 75% of the shares in the hands of IOC<\/strong> and <strong>25% in the hands of CPCL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Despite the financial and shareholding structure changes,<strong>the corporation has not provided specific details on the reasons behind the cost increase nor has it indicated whether this will affect the expected completion date of the project<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>By 2021, the green light had been given for the implementation of this project in Tamil Nadu with the objective of meeting the increased demand for  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/exports-of-crude-oil-and-oil-products-from-guyana-to-the-us-tripled-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"29880\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petroleum products<\/a><\/strong>  in the southern region of India, complementing the operation of CPCL&#8217;s existing 211,000 barrels per day capacity refinery in Manali.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Refinery expansion in Chennai<\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>The original Nagapattinam refinery<\/strong>, with a capacity of 20,000 barrels per day located in the Cauvery Basin,<strong> was shut down in 2019 to begin decommissioning<\/strong>, initiating an extensive rebuilding and expansion process.<\/p>\n\n<p>Notably, in December 2023, IOC announced a one-year delay in the expansion of its Panipat refinery to December 2025, along with a 10% increase in project costs.<\/p>\n\n<p>During the period from April 2023 to February 2024, the nine IOC refineries will be operating from April 2023 to February 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iocl.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.iocl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\n  <strong>IOC <\/strong>\n<\/a>processed <strong>a total of 1.46 million barrels of crude oil per day<\/strong>, registering a 1% increase compared to the previous year. CPCL&#8217;s Manali refinery processed 232,000 barrels per day during the same period, which represents an increase of almost 3% over the previous year.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss any of our posts and follow us on social media!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inspenet.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@inspenet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/inspenetnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inspenetnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/inspenet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Inspenetnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source: Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Photo: Shutterstock<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOC&#8217;s nine refineries processed a total of 1.46 million barrels of crude oil per day, registering a 1% increase compared to 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8404,"featured_media":142480,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13036],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-142504","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-oil-and-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/142504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/142504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=142504"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=142504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}