Essar Oil is expecting the first crude oil consignment to arrive in the third week of September 2006 so that pre-commissioning activities of the greenfield 10.5 million tpa Vadinar petroleum refinery could begin in October 2006.

The refinery being set up with an investment of $2.2 billion is designed to handle a host of crude mixes and configured to produce Euro II and Euro III grades of petrol and diesel.

In a related development, Essar`s 32 million tonne oil terminal at Vadinar in Gujarat is expected to go on stream by end-September 2006. The terminal facility would include single buoy mooring system with annual capacity of 25 million tonnes and crude oil tankage facility with interconnecting pipelines with a capacity of 20 million tonnes. It would also have product tankage facility of 14 million tonnes and marine product despatch facility with jetty with a capacity of 12 million tonnes.

The Vadinar terminal would also have a rail car loading facility for products with a capacity of seven million tonnes and truck loading facility for products with a capacity of 2.5 million tonnes.

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Essar's Vadinar refinery by October 2006 (29-Aug-06)