On April 28, 2012, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicated the Bathinda refinery to the nation.
The state-of-the-art refinery has used structural steel that would
have been enough to build 15 buildings of the size of Eiffel Tower, each
320 metres in height. The amount of cement and concrete used in the
refinery would have built the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa,
twice with each structure measuring 829.84 metres. The Chimneys of the
refinery compete with Qutub Minar, the tallest minaret in India. The
height of the chimneys is 141.7 metres, double the height of Qutub
Minar.
Over 2,800-km-long pipelines have been used over 2,000 acres of
land. The pipelines are long enough to cover distance from Bathinda to
Mumbai and even more. The Crude Oil Terminal at Mundra and crude
pipeline are sufficient to hold three days of India’s total crude oil
requirement.
Apart from being an engineering marvel, the refinery is also
self-sustainable in terms of power generation. Located in fuel and power
deficient North India, the plant uses its poisonous gases for producing
153-MW of power, thereby, managing the emission that could have harmed
the environment.
The present capacity of the refinery is 9 million metric tonnes per
annum, which, steel tycoon Laxmi N. Mittal said, would be doubled to 18
million metric tonnes in the years to come.
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