Improve energy indices. Increase Complexity and Keep pace with the world standards in emission” urges Shri Saurabh Chandra, Secretary Petroleum & Natural Gas.

“The Make India campaign will make India into a manufacturing powerhouse and energy demands will multiply. Indian Refiners must record a marked improvement in energy performance, up the refinery complexity to squeeze maximum value and yield, all the while keeping the emissions in check on par with the global benchmark” said Shri Saurabh Chandra IAS, Secretary Petroleum & Natural Gas, MoP & NG., GoI. He was speaking after inaugurating the 3-day, 19th Refinery Technology Meet organized by Centre for High Technology (CHT) of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG), GoI and co-hosted by MRPL ( Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd)that got off to a start at Chennai, today. “The participants of the Meet should come up with out of the box solutions and innovative ideas, translate them into action and demonstrate the value and impact before the next RTM “ said Shri Saurabh Chandra.

In his keynote address Shri Saumitra Chaudhuri, Former Member, Planning Commission,
Government of India, the eminent macro economist who helped formalise the “Automobile fuel & Vision 2025 policy” drew attention to the fact that there is a disproportionate amount of responsibility placed on Petroleum companies and Automobile sector, and this combined with a sense of urgency about ambient air quality are to addressed immediately. “Companies must raise the bar on fuel quality and emissions and it is incumbent upon India to get to the front of the winning countries as far as energy factors go”, he emphasized.

Quoting numbers and data on performance in the Indian Refining sector, Shri Sandeep Poundrik IAS, Joint Secretary (Refineries), Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of Indiaclearly set the target for the downstream stalwarts gathered at the RTM. “ There is gap between the world’s best in Energy Intensity Index and our refineries, he said, “We needto cover this and the GRMs definitely need to improve, particularly that of the 17 PSU refineries; energy and operational efficiencies must be on par with the best and Indian refiners must plan infrastructure vamps to process sour, high tan and different quality crudes while extracting the best yield”.

While defining key performance indicators and announcing quarterly reviews of the same to push up the growth graph in Indian downstream, both Shri Saurabh Chandra and Shri Poundrik acknowledged the remarkable contribution from Indian refiners and the dedication and knowledge that the Teams have always demonstrated in serving the Nation, even in the face of natural calamities like the tsunami, cyclone and floods
“The 19th RTM will dwell on “Emerging Refining and Energy Landscape”, explained Shri B D Ghosh, Executive Director, CHT, “Almost 600 delegates from the Indian and world downstream sector have registered and the quality of the deliberations promises to be gamechanging ” he remarked. 84 technical papers, Q & A sessions, 88 poster sessions covering wide ranging topics will fuel this knowledge intervention Meet.

Welcoming everyone Shri H Kumar, Managing Director, MRPL said that the timing of this Meet couldnot have been better in view of the gamechanging decisions and fresh strategies in the energy sector.

Shri Krishnamurthy, Director, CHT said that its RTM is carefully designed to work asa proactive knowledge networking platformfor the Indian Hydrocarbon Sector. “We also recognize the best performances across energy indices from the participant organizations in this sector and honour them with the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Awards and the Oil Conservation Awards”, he said.

Energy Consevation Awards Announced : IndianOil makes a clean sweep at the 19th RTM

The Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Awards : First, Second and Third that come with a silver trophy, citation and certificates, are given in different categories based on complexity (more than 7.5 Nielson or less than 7.5 Nielson). These were given away today at the Inaugural session of the 19th RTM at Chennai.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Awards for 2013-14 were swept by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, with Indian Oil’s Panipat Refinery bagging the First Prize in Group I; their Haldia Refinery securing First and Barauni Refinery the Third Prize, in Group II. IndianOil’s Guwahati Refinery took home the Special Award for Best Improvement in 2013-14.

IndianOil’s Gujarat Refinery also won the First prize in the Oil & Gas Conservation Award for Furnace/ Boiler Insulation Effectiveness in Category I and Haldia, Digboi and Barauni Refineries of IndianOil got the first, second and third prize in Category II.

Under the “Furnace /Boiler Efficiency” in Group II, again IndianOil’s Mathura, Haldia and Guwahati Refineries took away the first, second and third prizes.

Shri Saurabh Chandra IAS, Secretary P&NG, GoI, releases the e-compedium after inaugurating the 19th Refinery Technology Meet at Chennai.
L to R S/Shri R Krishnamurthy, Director CHT, B D Ghosh, Exec Director, CHT, Shri Saumitra Chaudhuri, Former Member, Planning Commission, Saurabh Chandra, Secretary P&NG, Sandeep Poundrik, Joint Secretary (Refineries) P&NG, GoI and H.Kumar, MD, MRPL.

The First Prize in the Oil & Gas Conservation Award under Group III, for Furnace/Boiler Efficiency, was secured again by Guwahati Refinery of IndianOil.The Prizes were received by Shri B Ashok, Chairman IndianOil, Shri Sanjiv Singh, Director Refineries, IndianOil and Team members at the RTM.

The Second Prize in Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Awards for 2013-14 in Group I was won by SEZ Refinery of Reliance Industries Limited and the Third Prize went to Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. Reliance Industries Limited SEZ Refinery also won the Second Prize under Group II for Furnace/Boiler Efficiency Oil & Gas Conservation Award.

In Group II of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Award Second Place went to Vadinar Refinery of Essar Oil.

The First Prize in the Oil & Gas Conservation Award Group I for Furnace/Boiler Efficiency went to HMEL. HPCL’s Mumbai Refinery also bagged the Second prize in Group III under the same.

Manali Refinery of CPCL won the Oil & Gas Conservation Award Second Prize under Category I for Furnace/Boilers Insulation Effectiveness and BPCL’s Kochi Refinery secured the Third position in the same.

IndianOil’s Haldia Refinery Team alongwith Shri B Ashok, Chairman, IndianOil ( seventh from left) receiving the Trophy from Shri Saurabh Chandra IAS, Secretary P &NG, GoI.
L to R S/Shri R Krishnamurthy, Director CHT, B D Ghosh, Exec Director, CHT, Shri Saumitra Chaudhuri, Former Member, Planning Commission, Sanjiv Singh, Director Refineries, IndianOil, Misra, Exec Dir, Haldia Refinery, Saurabh Chandra, Secretary P&NG, B. Ashok, Chairman, IndianOil and Team from IndianOil Haldia.