Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL), a subsidiary of ONGC, has become the largest PSU refinery at a single location in India for 2022-23. The company achieved the feat by processing 17.14 mt of crude oil in the last financial year. This was also the highest-ever throughput processed by any single-location PSU refinery in India’s petroleum refining history. 

MRPL processes 10 per cent of the total crude oil refined by PSU petroleum refineries in India. 

The company was established as a joint venture in 1988 with a 3.69 mtpa capacity. MRPL expanded its operations in two phases to raise its capacity to 15 Mtpa. The refinery configuration has a Nelson Complexity Index (NCI) of 11.3, one of the highest for PSU refineries. Its Petchem Intensity is 9.5 per cent, and the company aims to reach 15 per cent in the medium term. 

The company can process more than 250 different types of crude oil from around the globe. Crude oil from the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Russia, Africa, South America and the US are the major ones processed at MRPL. It is capable of producing almost a full range of petroleum products, like naphtha, LPG, motor spirit, high-speed diesel, kerosene, aviation turbine fuel, sulphur, xylene and bitumen, along with pet coke and polypropylene.