GADIMOGA, India (Reuters) - Reliance Industries' new 580,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Gujarat is operating at close to full capacity, Executive Director P.M.S. Prasad said.
The new plant, next to its old 660,000 bpd refinery, has turned Jamnagar into the world's largest refining complex, processing 1.24 million bpd.
"We have commissioned all the units and it is operating at almost full capacity," Prasad, who heads Reliance's upstream and refinery business, told Reuters on Saturday.
Last month Reliance started an 85,000 bpd alkylation unit, the only unit remaining to be started up at the new plant, with the aim of producing petrol to meet tough U.S. and European norms.
Since the start of commercial production at its new plant in mid-March, Reliance's fuel exports have shifted direction sharply as it has diverted sales from Asia to the Gulf and Europe.
Prasad, who fathered India's deepest and biggest gas find in the D6 block off India's east coast, has been working with Reliance since last 28 years and played a key role in backward integration of the petrochemical firm to refinery to exploration.
He managed the old Jamnagar refinery project, which, when started about a decade ago turned India into a net fuel exporter.
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