The 9-million tonne capacity Bathinda Oil Refinery would be built on EURO IV product specifications and would include a 110 mw captive power plant. In a meeting between the stakeholders HPCL, Mittal Energy, and the Punjab government on Saturday, it was decided that crude oil would be brought through pipeline from Mundra (Gujarat) with single plant mooring (SPM) and Crude Oil terminal. The core issues under the consideration of meeting was to discuss the salient features of Guru Gobind Singh Refinery (GGSRL)?the pace of implementation and date of commissioning, slated for December 2010. The GGSRL at Bathinda would be developed as one of the major Petro Chemical Hubs in Asia, realising massive economic and vocational synergies for the region.
Presiding over the meeting, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal said the 9MMTPA Refinery entailing an investment of Rs 18,000 crore would usher in an era of overall development & prosperity in the area. Badal said the project at Bathinda holds immense potential to emerge as one of the key drivers of economic growth and employment generation for the present and the next generation.
He said the economic spin off of the Bathinda refinery will orbit far beyond its originally designated sphere of activity and would influence the total economy of the region.