India Sets 63,810-Tonne LPG Targets for 21 Plants as Reliance Gets 18,000-Tonne Quota
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Updated · The Hindu · Aug 16
India Sets 63,810-Tonne LPG Targets for 21 Plants as Reliance Gets 18,000-Tonne Quota
3 articles · Updated · The Hindu · Aug 16
Summary
An Aug. 13 order gives 21 refineries and upstream companies facility-specific LPG targets that can be activated during supply disruptions, creating a standing emergency framework rather than ad hoc crisis directives.
63,810 tonnes a day of potential output is more than double India’s 2025-26 domestic production rate and covers about 70% of daily consumption, after imports supplied 21.3 million tonnes—over 64% of demand.
Reliance’s domestic-tariff-area Jamnagar refinery received the largest quota at 18,000 tonnes a day; 18 state-run refineries were assigned 31,470 tonnes, Nayara 4,480 tonnes and upstream producers such as ONGC and GAIL 6,460 tonnes.
The order also requires storage, evacuation and transport capacity, plus feasible upgrades such as naphtha-to-LPG conversion and FCC modifications, with the schedule to be reviewed every six months.
The framework follows the Iran war disruption that choked the Strait of Hormuz—route for 90% of India’s LPG imports—and forced rationing, industrial curbs and a temporary domestic output surge to about 55,000 tonnes a day.