Published on July 18, 2017

Haldia Petrochem Limited (HPL) had asked West Bengal government for setting up an upstream refinery plant in order to reduce the imports of naphtha. "We want to set up an upstream refinery plant here and we are getting ready for that. We seek more land for the project," the company's Executive Vice President and head of the plant Ashok Kumar Ghosh said. HPL used to procure about 20% of its naphtha requirement from the refinery here.  "The refinery (at Haldia) can supply up to 20% of our requirement even if it (refinery) runs in full capacity. We are importing the rest of our naphtha requirement from Gulf countries. This is a huge penalty for our plant," he said.