Reliance Industries to Invest in Indian COTC Complex

Reliance Industries plans to invest $ 9.8 billion in a crude-oil-to-chemicals (COTC) complex at the company's Jamnagar site in India, according to Chemical Week report in November 2019.

Reliance intends to build COTC units including a multi-feed steam cracker and multi-zone catalytic cracking (MCC) unit. The company also plans to convert the site's existing fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit to a high-severity FCC (HSFCC) or Petro FCC unit, to maximize ethylene and propylene yields.

The MCC/HSFCC complex will have combined capacity for 8.5 million metric tons/year (Mln mt/yr) of ethylene and propylene, and total extraction capacity for 3.5 Mln mt/yr of benzene, toluene, and xylenes. It will also have combined capacity for 4.0 Mln mt/yr of para-xylene (p-xylene) and ortho-xylene. The steam cracker will have combined capacity for 4.1 Mln mt/yr of ethylene and propylene, and feed crude C4s to a 700kt/year butadiene extraction plant.