A subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance group, Reliance Petroleum Ltd has commissioned an export specific refinery near the existing unit in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Both units have the capacity to refine 1.24 million barrels of crude per day. US Company, Chevron has a 5% stake in the refinery and it would produce high quality Euro-IV and Euro-V grade fuels.

The refinery is completed in a record time of 36 months with an investment of $6 billion. It would be fully operational within 3 or 4 months. The refinery is capable of treating even the poorest quality of crude oil. It would initially use lighter sweet crude (low sulphur) for up to two months and higher-sulphur crude would be used once it becomes fully operational. Its de-sulfurisation unit has become fully operational to produce high quality fuel.

Production of naphtha, kerosene, diesel and has already started in the first phase while petrol production would start by the end of February. The refinery is designed to produce 31,000 tonnes of diesel and 25,000 tonnes of petrol, sulphur, pet coke and naphtha per day.