HPCL Visakha refinery to produce Euro-compliant products

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HPCL Visakha refinery to produce Euro-compliant products

The Visakha refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) is gearing up to offer Euro-III and Euro-IV compliant products by April 2010, according to Mr P.A.B. Raju, Executive Director.

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Visakhapatnam, July 3:

The Visakha refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) is gearing up to offer Euro-III and Euro-IV compliant products by April 2010, according to Mr P.A.B. Raju, Executive Director.

At a press conference, he said HPCL had spent Rs 2,500 crore for the clean fuels projects to produce petrol compliant with the stringent Euro standards and "we will be able to supply such products in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam by April. The project is in advanced stages of implementation".

He said the refinery had achieved crude throughput of over nine million tonnes during 2008-09, even though its capacity was only 7.5 million tonnes. It also produced the highest-ever 3,40,000 tonnes of bitumen during the year and it had processed 20 different types of crude during the year.

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"The first consignment of Reliance crude from the Krishna-Godavari basin was processed during the year. We are expecting to process new crude from Rajasthan by September this year," Mr Raju said.

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