HPCL's ₹79,459 Crore Pachpadra Refinery-Petrochemical Complex in Rajasthan Declared Commercially Operational
HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Limited (HRRL), a joint venture of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), has declared June 22, 2026, as the date its Pachpadra refinery in Rajasthan achieved commercial operations, about nine days ahead of its scheduled July 1 commissioning date.
Lead banker State Bank of India, under the Rupee Term Loan Facility Agreement, confirmed it had taken the declaration on record. The milestone follows restoration of the refinery's Crude Distillation Unit (CDU), which had been damaged in a fire on April 20, 2026, a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to formally dedicate the complex to the nation. The CDU was restarted by June 18, with all product streams routed to tanks for downstream processing.
HRRL has resumed production of BS-VI High Speed Diesel, LPG, naphtha and petcoke, with LPG and petcoke sales already underway and HSD dispatches expected to begin shortly after. Production and dispatch of BS-VI petrol were expected to follow in the subsequent week.
HRRL is a 9 MMTPA greenfield refinery-cum-petrochemical complex at Pachpadra in Rajasthan's Balotra district, with 2.4 MMTPA of petrochemical capacity. The joint venture is held 74 per cent by HPCL and 26 per cent by the Government of Rajasthan. The complex is configured to process 7.5 MMTPA of imported crude and 1.5 MMTPA of Rajasthan crude.
The Union Cabinet had approved a revision in the project cost to ₹79,459 crore in April 2026, up from ₹43,129 crore, an increase of about 84 per cent, along with additional equity infusion of ₹8,962 crore by HPCL, taking the company's total equity in the project to ₹19,600 crore.