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In a first, govt allots daily LPG output target for all refineries, upstream entities
- IBJ Bureau
- Aug 17, 2026
The government has for the first time fixed maximum cooking gas LPG production targets for individual public and private sector refineries and upstream companies.
The order, issued by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry on August 13, sets combined production potential at 63,810 tonnes a day.
This is more than double the domestic LPG output of the last financial year and about 70 per cent of the country’s daily consumption.
The production target is the direct result of the West Asia crisis, which exposed how vulnerable India’s cooking gas supply is to a disruption in imports.
The ministry has specified maximum LPG production levels for 21 refineries and upstream companies, with 18 public sector refineries ordered to produce a total of 31,470 tonnes of LPG a day.
Reliance Industries’ older refinery in Jamnagar (the 33-mt domestic tariff area plant whose products are sold locally) has been allotted the largest single quota to process up to 18,000 tonnes of LPG a day.
No target has been set for Reliance’s separate, exports-exclusive refinery at the same site.
Russia’s Rosneft-backed Nayara Energy’s Vadinar refinery has been asked to produce 4,480 tonnes a day.
Gas producers and processors, like ONGC and GAIL, which make LPG from natural gas, have been given a combined target of 6,460 tonnes a day.
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