IOCL BARAUNI REFINERY

UNIT PROFILE
 Barauni Refinery is the second Public Sector Refinery of Indian Oil
Corporation built in collaboration with erstwhile USSR and limited
participation of Romania. Situated 125 kilometeres from Patna, it was built
with an initial cost of Rs 49.40 crore.
 Barauni Refinery was commissioned in 1964 with a refining capacity of 1
Million Metric Tonnes per Annum (MMTPA) and it was dedicated to the
Nation by the then Union Minister for Petroleum, Prof. Humayun Kabir in
January 1965. After de-bottlenecking, revamping and expansion project, it's
capacity today is 6 MMTPA.
 Barauni Refinery was initially designed to process low sulphur crude oil
(sweet crude) of Assam. After establishment of other refineries in the
Northeast, Assam crude is unavailable for Barauni . Hence, sweet crude is
being sourced from African, South East Asian and Middle East countries
like Nigeria, Iraq&Malaysia. The refinery receives crude oil by pipeline
from Paradip on the east coast via Haldia.
 Barauni Refinery caters to the Oil requirement of large number of
customers of Northern West Bengal, Bihar, Nepal and part of U .P.
CRU
 COKER
A coker or coker
unit is an oil refinery
processing unit that
converts the residual
oil from the vacuum
distillation column
into low molecular
weight hydrocarbon
gases,, naphtha, light
and heavy gas oils,
and petroleum coke.
The process
thermally cracks the
long chain
hydrocarbon
molecules in the
residual oil feed into
shorter chain
molecules leaving
behind the excess
carbon in the form of
petroleum coke.
NAME OF PROCESS UNITS

 AVU : ATMOSPHERIC & VACUUM UNIT

 PEU : PHENOL EXTRACTION UNIT
 SDU : SOLVENT DEWAXING UNIT
 CCU : COKE CALCINATION UNIT
 CRU : CATALYTIC REFORMER UNIT
 RFCCU : RESID FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING UNIT
 DHDT : DIESEL HYDROTREATER UNIT
 HGU : HYDROGEN GENERATION UNIT
 SRU : SULPHUR RECOVERY UNIT
 ARU : AMINE REGENERATION UNIT
MAIN PRODUCTS

 LPG : LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS

 MS : MOTOR SPIRIT
 NAPHTHA : NAPHTHA
 HSD : HIGH SPEED DIESEL
 SKO : SUPERIOR KEROSENE OIL
 MTO : MINERAL TURPENTINE OIL
 LDO : LIGHT DIESEL OIL
 LSHS : LOW SULPHUR HEAVY STOCK
 RPC : RAW PETROLEUM COKE
 CPC : CALCINED PETROLEUM COKE
 P. EXT. : PHENOL EXTRACT
 SL. WAX : SLACK WAX
Energy Policy
To be a World Class performer in energy management By

• Adopting energy efficient and environment friendly

technologies.
• Benchmarking our performance with the best in the
world and endeavoring to be ahead.
• Promoting use of renewable sources of energy.
• Fostering a culture of participation and innovation
amongst stake holders for continual improvement in
energy conservation.
• Propagating the message of avoiding wastage of
energy to the community.