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07 Jan 2015
January 7: Despatches of pet coke (fuel grade) from the sidings of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), Essar Oil Ltd (Essar) and HPCL- Mittal Refinery (Bhatinda) in December remained largely flat as compared to October, according to information available with ICMW.
Despatches from the sidings of the above refineries in December stood at 94 rakes as compared to 96 rakes in October, which did not include data from Bhatinda. The data for November is not available with ICMW at present.
Details of despatches from other refineries like BORL and IOCL-Koyali for the months of December and October are also not currently available with ICMW.
Incidentally, despatches from HPCL’s Bhatinda refinery had commenced in November after a major fire in July this year.
Following is the detailed monthly loading of pet coke from various Indian refineries between January 2014 and December 2014 (in number of rakes):
|
Name of Co. |
Dec-14 |
Nov-14 |
14-Oct |
14-Sep |
14-Aug |
14-Jul |
14-Jun |
14-May |
14-Apr |
14-Mar |
14-Feb |
14-Jan |
|
RIL (SEZ) |
58 |
57 |
60 |
NA |
50 |
52 |
68 |
61 |
77 |
65 |
NA |
|
|
RIL (DTA) |
NA |
6 |
6 |
NA |
3 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
7 |
NA |
|
|
Essar Oil |
23 |
33 |
28 |
NA |
18 |
24 |
28 |
27 |
32 |
27 |
NA |
|
|
BORL-Bina |
NA |
NA |
8 |
NA |
6 |
6 |
9 |
7 |
7 |
5 |
NA |
|
|
HPCL-Bhatinda |
13 |
Nil |
Nil |
NA |
Nil |
7 |
8 |
6 |
7 |
4 |
NA |
|
|
IOCL-Koyali (Baroda) |
NA |
NA |
1 |
NA |
2 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
NA |
|
|
Total |
94 |
96 |
103 |
NA |
79 |
95 |
119 |
103 |
131 |
109 |
NA |
One rake usually carries around 3,550 tons of pet coke.
Beside rakes, despatches from domestic refineries also take place by trucks. For example, despatches from IOCL’s Koyali refinery generally takes place by trucks to consumers in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan though it had introduced rake loading in November 2013.
Also, despatches by trucks take place from other refineries, including RIL’s DTA, but that figure is not available with ICMW.
Of the total 58 rakes despatched from RIL’s SEZ and DTA sidings in December, 24 rakes went to Shree Cement, 4 to Ultra Tech, 13 to JK Lakshmi Cement, 2 rakes to Saurashtra Cement, 1 to Prism Cement, 2 to Hindustan Electrographite, 3 to Tata Chemicals, 2 rakes to Birla Chittor and 7 rakes to small consumers whose details are not available right now.
despatches from Essar’s refinery stood at 23 rakes in December, down significantly from 33 rakes in October, 28 rakes in September and 18 in July.
Of the 23 rakes despatched in December, 5 went to Mangalam Cement, 8 to UltraTech, 1 to Tata Chemical, 4 to ACC (Ambuja), 3 to Heidelberg Cement, 1 to Saurashtra Cement and 1 to Jaiprakash (Dallah).
Of the 13 rakes despatched from HPCL-Mittal’s Bhatinda refinery in December, 10 went to Shree Cement, 1 to Ambuja (Chandigarh) and 2 went to some parties in Nepal.
There were no despatches from this refinery between July-November.