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India's HPCL Vizag Refinery Set for Higher Diesel Output

REFINING

India’s state owed refiner HPCL will cut diesel purchases from other domestic refiners now it has commissioned a 3 million tons per annum (mtpa) hydrocracker at its Vizag refinery according to its head of refining S Bharathan.

  • Vizag refinery will operate at 13.5 mtpa capacity in the current fiscal year and at full capacity of 15 mtpa in the next fiscal, Bharathan said.
  • The 3 mtpa hydrocracker will maximise diesel output and operate at a rate of 1.5 mtpa in the second half of this fiscal year to March - in the next fiscal year the hydrocracker will operate at 2.4 mtpa capacity.

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