Moily launches IndianOil Paradip refinery’s main control room
New Delhi   29-Jul-2013

Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M Veerappa Moily inaugurated the main control room of Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC) Rs 30,000 crore Paradip refinery project which is likely to be commissioned in next six months.

'The refinery project is set to be commissioned by February-March, 2014 for which we want cooperation of all, the people of Odisha, the state government, the government of India,' Moily said after inaugurating the main control room.

'Once the project is completed, a whole lot of industries will come up and create lakhs of jobs,' he said complimenting the personnel engaged in executing the project.

The project will give prosperity to the people and change the fortunes of the region, said the minister who visited the Atmospheric Vacuum Distillation unit, Fluid Catalytic Cracking (INDMAX) unit, Delayed Coking Unit and Crude and Product tankages area of Paradip Refinery Project.

Addressing IndianOil employees, Moily said the country is proud of IndianOil and commissioning of Paradip Refinery will further enhance the PSUs image.

'Best talent has been deployed in the execution of this project and we need to work with missionary zeal to complete this project,' said Moily, assuring every support to IndianOil in completing this refinery project.

The process units of Paradip Refinery project will be operated through different control systems installed in Main Control Room which is the biggest control room among the IndianOil refineries, an executive informed the minister.

This blast proof control room is having all the Control Systems and Safety Shutdown systems for control, monitoring and safe shutdown of major process plants. A combination of about 80,000 open and closed loop process parameters of these process units will be controlled through 46 operator stations installed in this control room.

All control systems comprise DCS (Distributed Control system), ESD (Emergency Shutdown System) have been designed based on the process requirements given by different process licensors viz. FWEL (UK), Shell (Netherlands), Axens (France), IndianOil (R&D)-ABB Lummus , Foster Wheeler (USA), UOP (USA), Basell (Italy), Black & Veatch(USA).

The main control building is aided by another seven satellite rack rooms for housing the control systems of different process units in a decentralised manner to take care of scattered locations of different process units across the refinery plot.

Main control room is also provided with all monitoring systems for fire and gas detectors located across the refinery units. To meet its power needs, the refinery is setting up IndianOil's largest captive power plant of 366 MW capacity.

IndianOil Chairman R S Butola said the 15 MMTPA state-of-the-art Paradip Refinery will take the IndianOil's refining capacity to over 80.0 MMTPA to meet the growing energy needs of the country. The Paradip Refinery, described as a sunrise project for a sunshine future, is the highly complex and most modern refinery is conceived to process 100 per cent high -sulphur including 40 per cent heavy cheaper crude for better profitability.

This energy efficient refinery will meet the spiralling domestic demand for LPG, petrol, diesel, ATF and other petroleum products in eastern India and beyond.