Reliance to offers oil if supplies disrupted by PSU officers’ strike
Reliance Industries, the nation’s largest private sector refiner, has committed to supply all of the petroleum products it produces at Jamnagar in Gujarat if a strike by oil PSU officers was to disrupt fuel supplies.
The 33-million-tons-a-year refinery at Jamnagar has been converted into a only-for-export unit, but it is willing to cancel export obligations to meet domestic fuel needs.
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Mukesh Ambani offers prayers at Balaji temple
After commissioning Reliance Petroleum units at Jamnagar in Gujarat as the world’s largest refining hub, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near here.
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Reliance asks security cover for its Jamnagar Refinery Complex
Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has sought security cover from the government for its refinery complex at Jamnagar, in the wake of the recent terror attacks in Mumbai.
Reliance, whose Jamnagar facility is the largest petrochemical hub in the country, wants the security to be of the same standards as in atomic power installations.
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US Congressmen asks to revoke loan to Reliance
A group of US Congressmen have asked the country’s Export-Import Bank to suspend $900 million worth assistance to Reliance Industries, until the Mukesh Ambani-led Indian conglomerate stops business with Iran.
In a statement issued here, Congressman Brad Sherman said that he along with a “bipartisan group of House colleagues” have sent… letter to the Ex-Im president calling on the bank to suspend assistance for RIL, until it agrees to stop selling gasoline to Iran.
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Reliance’s Iran links invite America’s wrath
Export-Import Bank of the US has come under attack from a group of American Congressmen for a ‘perfunctory’ due diligence on India’s
top corporate entity Reliance Industries and failing to detect its ties with Iran.
The lawmakers asked the bank to get a commitment from the Indian firm on ceasing gasoline shipments to Iran before releasing the undisbursed guarantees to RIL.
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Pawan Kumar Kapil appointed as Additional Director at Reliance Petroleum
Mukesh Ambani Group firm Reliance Petroleum on Wednesday announced the appointment of Pawan Kumar Kapil as an additional director of the company.
“Pawan Kumar Kapil has been appointed as an Additional Director of the company with effect from December 15, 2008,” Reliance Petroleum Ltd said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
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Reliance’s Jamnagar petrochemical refinery complex

The integrated petrochemical and refinery complex at Jamnagar was commissioned in the year 2000. A 27 million tonne refinery at Jamnagar accounts for 24 per cent of India’s refining capacity and is the world’s largest grassroots refinery and the 5th largest refinery at any single location.




