The refineries will produce petrol, diesel, LPG, ATF, Feedstock for petrochemical plants in plastic, chemical and textile industries in Maharashtra. Govt of Maharashtra and Ministry of oil and petroleum will closely work for identication of land for project. IOC had recently started its 15 million tonnes unit at Paradip in Odisha. Reliance Industry hold the biggest refinery in India till now which is at Jamnagar in Gujrat with capacity of 27 million tonnes which was expanded to 33 million tonnes. It had also started another unit of export with a capacity of 29 million tonnes.
Being on west coast will provide an advantage of easily sourcing crude oil from Middle East and Africa. Also further transportation of oil after refining would be easy.
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