A naphtha hydrocracker will be shut down for about 80 days, and half of the refinery’s crude processing will be suspended for nearly a month, as part of Indian Oil Corp’s maintenance plans for its 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) Panipat refinery in northern India.
According to the individuals acquainted with the proposal, the nation’s leading refiner would shut down the naphtha cracker at its Panipat facility starting on Monday for an upgrade intended to increase its ethylene output capacity.
The cracker generates 857,000 tonnes of ethylene and consumes around 2.3 million tonnes of naphth
