Bathinda refinery to be inaugurated this month
The Rs 21,500-crore Guru Gobind Singh Refinery, an HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited project in Bathinda(Punjab) would be inaugurated in mid-April, likely to change the industrial scenario of whole Punjab.
Prabh Das, managing director and chief executive officer of HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited, had met Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and apprised him of the development.
Das informed this was the largest investment in Punjab since independence, which could be possible because of a pro-active approach of SAD-BJP government. He said it was a matter of record that the refinery, which started constructing in 2008, has started refining mineral oil in August 2011 less than 48 months.
He said that with the cooperation of Punjab Government the company could construct Crude Oil Terminal and 1017 km cross country pipeline in record 27 months.
Speaking on the occasion, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister, said that with the full operationalisation of Refinery, the Punjab government would now attract tertiary industry that could use the by-products of refinery as their raw material and for this purpose he asked the Industry Department to set-up an Industrial Park of 200 acres in the vicinity of Refinery.