The Chennai Petroleum Corporation (CPCL) plans to invest Rs 12,340 crore over
the next five years to expand its Manali refinery in Tamil Nadu.
CPCL plans to increase the refining capacity at Manali to 17 million tpa by
2016 from the current 10.5 million tpa. Initially, the company plans to expand
the capacity of the refinery to 11.1 million tpa by September 2011. The
short-term capacity increase will be done through debottlenecking and increasing
the efficiency of old operating units at a cost of about Rs 340 crore.
The expansion to 17 million tpa will include replacing an old three million
tpa refining unit with a new nine million tpa refining unit.