Reliance Petroleum Limited is setting up a 27 million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa) Greenfield petroleum refinery and polypropylene plant in a Special Economic Zone in Jamnagar (Gujarat). The refinery will have a total atmospheric distillation capacity of approximately 580 kilo barrels per stream day (kbpsd). The polypropylene plant will have a capacity to produce 0.9 (mmtpa). Post completion, the refinery will rank as the sixth largest in the world.

The Company has been promoted by Reliance Industries Limited which is India's largest private sector company in terms of sales and profits and enjoys global scale in refining and petrochemicals. The group has demonstrated excellent financial acumen and project execution capabilities in terms of implementation of high capital-intensive world-scale projects within accelerated timelines. The project is progressing well and the refinery is expected to commence operations by 2008 within the targeted project completion period of 36 months.