Visakhapatnam, June 10 -- The Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited Visakh Refinery's processing capacity has increased to 15 million tonnes after the addition of a new crude unit, hydrogen plants, sulphur recovery plants, and a VGO (Vacuum Gas Oil) hydrocracker.

These additions are part of the Visakh Refinery Modernisation Project. About 10 years ago, the Visakh Refinery's capacity to process crude oil was around nine million tonnes (8.33 million tonnes, to be precise), as per Visakh Refinery's Executive Director Ramanathan Ramakrishnan.

He informed that the updates carried out under the Visakh Refinery Modernisation Project have helped increase the refinery capacity to process crude oil to 15 million tonnes, which was surpassed last...