Reliance Petroleum has announced that the company has achieved 90 per cent overall progress in implementation of  its 29 million tpa export oriented refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat. The significant milestones achieved during the quarter ending March 2008 include the following:

• RPL has received 5,350 equipments, including several over dimensional cargos (ODCs) and super heavy equipments from vendors across the world. With this, 93 per cent of equipments are already at site.

• Deliveries of bulk materials, including pipes, fittings as well as electrical and instrumentation bulks matched the pace of equipment deliveries and their installation at site. With near completion of deliveries of equipments and bulk materials, focus has shifted towards achieving a close-out and vendor follow-up for residual deliveries.

• The civil construction is nearly complete with nearly 2.0 million cubic meters of concreting works done at site.

• Over 4,000 equipments, including several super heavy equipments, have already been installed and are at various stages of completion and testing at site.

• Over 95 per cent of structural steel fabrication work, 74 percent of structural erection and 94 per cent of underground piping works are complete. Substantial progress is achieved in the areas of above-ground pipe fabrication and erection as well.

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