Essar Oil Conferred With Refinery Of The Year Award 2011
Essar Oil Ltd., India's second largest private refiner, has been conferred with the prestigious "Refinery of the Year Award"
Online, June 16, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Essar Oil Ltd., India's second largest private refiner, has been conferred with the prestigious "Refinery of the Year Award" 2011 by the Petroleum Federation (PetroFed),in recognition of its impressive performance in the Indian refining sector last year.
The award was received by Mr. C.Manoharan, Director - Refinery, Essar Oil,from the Honourable Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Mr. S.Jaipal Reddy during the annual Petroleum Federation Oil and Gas industry awards for 2011 event held in New Delhi recently.
This award acknowledges production and operational efficiencies in performance in the refining and petroleum in India during fiscal 2010-11. The company has won a trophy and a citation for excellence in its refining performance.
"Essar Oil's Vadinar refinery today accounts for 10 percent of India's total refining capacity. We are humbled by this recognition by PetroFed. It is our endeavor to create value for customers in the oil and gas sector, through world-class operating standards and state-of-the-art technology," said LK Gupta, MD & CEO, Essar Oil.
The Refinery of the Year category was one of the nine categories at the PetroFed awards, an apex hydrocarbon industry association representing companies from India's public and private companies in oil and gas sector.
Just last week Essar Oil completed its Refinery Optimisation Projectfour months ahead of schedule, taking the capacity of Vadinarrefinery to 20 MMTPA or 405,000 barrels per day, making it India's second largest single location refinery.In March, Essar Oil completed the Refinery Expansion Project to raise its nameplate capacity to 18MMTPA from 10.5 MMTPA, and complexity to 11.8. Essar Oil has invested approx. Rs 24,000 croreat its Vadinar Refinery complex.
About Essar Oil
Essar Oil is a fully integrated oil & gas company of international scale with strong presence across the hydrocarbon value chain from exploration & production to refining and oil retail. It has a global portfolio of onshore and offshore oil & gas blocks, with about 2.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent in reserves & resources. Essar Oil now has 405,000 bpsd (barrels per stream-day) of crude refining capacity. There are more than 1,600 Essar-branded oil retail outlets in various parts of India.
About Essar Group
The Essar Group is a multinational conglomerate and a leading player in the sectors of Steel, Energy, Infrastructure and Services. With operations in more than 25 countries across five continents, the Group employs 75,000 people, with revenues of over US$ 27 billion.
Media contacts:
Rabin Ghosh, Corporate Communications, (Mumbai)
Tel: 91 99 301 36268, email: rabin.ghosh@essar.com
Parikshit Kaul, Corporate Communications (New Delhi),
Tel: +91 98735 70816, Email: parikshit.kaul@essar.com
Priyank Talati, Corporate Communications (Ahmedabad),
Tel: +91 91 9979868817, Email: priyank.talati@essar.com
Jayesh Thanki, Corporate Communications (Vadinar),
Tel: +91 99 798 91425, Email: jbthanki@essar.com
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