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TABLE-Indian refiners' March crude processing up 3% y/y

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By Reuters
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April 21 (Reuters) - Indian refiners' crude oil throughput in March rose 3% to 5.44 million barrels per day (23 million tonnes) year on year, provisional government data showed. Natural gas output was up 2.4% to 2.96 billion cubic metres year on year, while crude oil production fell 2.9% to 2.45 million tonnes, the data showed. Following are details of refinery throughput and crude oil output:


REFINERY PRODUCTION IN TERMS OF CRUDE THROUGHPUT (in '000 tonnes):



March-2023 March-202 March-2022 April 2022-March April 2021-March 3 2023 2022



Plan Actual Actual Actual Actual



IOC, Guwahati 730 15 97 93 1,080



IOC, Barauni


588 580 596 6,785 5,620
IOC, Gujarat


1,278 1,346 1,338 15,567 13,474
IOC, Haldia


729 743 747 8,506 7,305
IOC, Mathura


790 898 884 9,573 9,123
IOC, Digboi 713 708 58 59 61



IOC, Panipat


1,341 1,298 1,285 13,810 14,849
IOC, Bongaigaon


234 258 248 2,775 2,639
IOC, Paradip


1,360 1,418 1,383 13,598 13,217
BPCL, Mumbai


1,260 1,358 1,269 14,546 14,437
BPCL, Kochi


1,380 1,542 1,522 16,017 15,402
BORL, Bina


695 736 704 7,842 7,410
HPCL, Mumbai


771 874 711 9,804 5,558
HPCL, Visakh


975 874 825 9,287 8,410
CPCL, Manali


930 1,034 1,062 11,316 9,040
NRL, Numaligarh


160 205 188 3,091 2,624
MRPL, Mangalore


1,475 1,502 1,504 17,116 14,871
ONGC, Tatipaka 73 75 4 5 6



HMEL, Bhatinda


970 1,110 1,092 12,735 13,027
RIL, Jamnagar


3,056 2,822 3,056 34,433 34,757
RIL, SEZ


2,074 2,538 2,073 27,872 28,264
Nayara, Vadinar


1,690 1,707 1,690 18,692 20,164
TOTAL


21,833 23,004 22,337 2,55,233 2,41,703




Source: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
IOC: Indian Oil Corp BPCL: Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd HPCL: Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd CPCL: Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd MRPL: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd Reliance Industries Ltd Please note that CPCL's CBR refinery is de-commissioned under shutdown due to limitation in meeting required product specifications with the existing configuration.



CRUDE OUTPUT ('000 tonnes):



March-2023 March-2023 March-2022


Plan Actual Actual
ONGC
Andhra Pradesh


17 17 15
Assam ^


102 89 86
Gujarat


427 381 385
Tamil Nadu


21 18 23



Offshore #


1,247 1,151 1,173



OIL
Assam, Arunachal Pradesh &
Rajasthan (heavy oil) 308 276 257



Private Operators


784 522 587
Total


2,907 2,454 2,526


Total may not tally because some numbers have been rounded.
ONGC: Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd OIL: Oil India Ltd ^Includes oil output of Tripura #Includes oil output from Mumbai High (Reporting by Ananya Bajpai in Bengaluru)

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