MOSCOW (MRC) -- Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has awarded a contract worth Rs. 100 crore to Petron Engineering Construction Ltd for its linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant in Gujarat, reported Plastemart.
The LLDPE plant is part of RIL's J-3 project in Jamnagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
The J-3 project boasts of a petroleum refinery and allied petrochemical plants for the production of plastics and fibre intermediates.
As MRC wrote before, Reliance Industries (RIL) will invest up to USD700 mln in its shale gas venture in the current fiscal and also ramp up spends under the USD13 bln capex programme in the petrochemical and refining business.
Besides, in October 2012, the company unveiled its plans to expand capacity at its refineries in the western state of Gujarat.
Reliance is also building one of the world’s largest ethylene crackers taking advantage of refinery integration at Jamnagar. This project will be commissioned in H2-2016 and would nearly double the ethylene capacity to 3.3 mln tpa.
Reliance Industries is one of the world's largest producers of polymers. Thus, the company produces among others polypropylene, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride.
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