Reliance Industries Ltd

会社概要　　　　　　　　　　　　　

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Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector company.

事業

2002/5 　　Reliance buys Indian Petrochemicals Corp

　　　　　　　　　　Reliance mulls PVC plant expansion at ICPL's site

2003/5 　　Reliance and DuPont Polyester Technologies sign agreement for R&D strategic alliance

　　　　　　　　　　Reliance aims to be world's largest polyester producer

2004/1　　 リライアンス、ＮＯＣＩＬから石化・樹脂事業を買収

2004/6 　ＪＳＲ　Reliance Industries Limited にブタジエン製造技術を供与

2004/6　　Reliance to acquire Trevira (Europe)

2005/8 　Reliance set to acquire BP's France, Belgium facilities

2005/12 　　India's Reliance to start up new polypropylene line by Feb/Mar

2006/1　　インドのReliance、製油所とＰＰ（100万t/y）建設

Jamanagar製油所　

　　　2006/4　Chevronが共同事業者として参加

　　　2006/4 　Dow Chemical may invest Rs5,000 crore in Reliance's Jamnagar SEZ　　

2006/4 　　India's Reliance on track to start up new PTA plant by end-May

2007/1　　Inida's Reliance Industries eyeing GE's Plastics unit

2007/2　RIL board approves $3bn cracker project in Jamnagar.

2007/3 　Reliance and IPCL to merge?

　Board of Directors of IPCL and RIL approve merger

　Reliance-Dow to set up $20bn venture

2007/5　Reliance selects Dow technology for polypropylene

2007/9　Reliance makes a strategic acquisition in East Africa

2007/10　Petroperu says looking to partner with Reliance on oil, petchems

2007/12 GAIL - RIL Sign MoU To Set Up Petrochemical Plants globally

2008/6 　Reliance to add 900,000 tonnes/yr polypropylene capacity at Jamnagar

2008/7　Reliance plans a 200 kt/yr PET plant for Kinston, NC by end 2009

会社概要

source:　http://www.indiainfoline.com/comp/rein/mr01.html

RIL is the leading player in petrochemicals and man-made fibers in India. In FY01, despite the devastating earthquake in the state of Gujarat, where Reliance’s major plants are located, company set new production records with total production volume crossing at 10.4 million tons- an increase of 16% over the previous year.

Plant locations

Hazira complex manufactures PVC, PP, HDPE, LLDPE, and MEG using ethylene as the key input.

Patalganga complex has integrated facilities for PSF/ PFY and LAB. Key input is naphtha. It has surplus capacity for PTA.

Naroda (near Ahmedabad) plant has spinning and weaving facilities. It uses PSF/ PFY along with cotton, wool, viscose from outside to produce fabric, yarn and textile products.

Jamnagar Complex has PX and PP facilities adjacent to 27 million TPA refinery.

事業

Polymers (Plastics)

RIL manufactures PP, PVC and PE (HDPE and LLDPE). It also manufactures ethylene oxide, which is an intermediate for manufacture of MEG, a key input for PSF/PFY. Reliance is the largest polymer manufacturer in the country, with the market share of 52%. It is the 6th largest producer of PP in the world with a capacity of nearly 1 million tons. It has 400,000 TPA of PE capacity and 300,000 TPA of PVC capacity.

RIL sources ethylene (major raw material) from its own cracker at Hazira having installed capacity of 750,000 TPA of ethylene. Company is also planning to set up an EDC (ethylene di-chloride) project, which has been the missing link in company’s backward integration for manufacturing PVC.

Cracker products

Polyester and fiber intermediates

RIL is the largest producer of PSF and PFY

RIL is the only manufacturer of PTA in India.

Others
　　Textiles:

　　Chemicals:

RIL manufactures LAB

Reliance Petroleum (RPL)

Oil and Gas

Power
Telecom
Reliance Infocom

Business Day 2002/5/22

Reliance buys Indian Petrochemicals Corp
http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1088772-6078-0,00.html

India's largest private company Reliance Industries has tightened its hold on the domestic petrochemicals market after acquiring control of Indian Petrochemicals Corp. Ltd. (IPCL), analysts said Monday.
 
Reliance Industries Ltd. agreed on Saturday to pay the government 14.91 billion rupees ($304.3-million) for a 26 percent stake in the second-biggest chemicals maker.

 
Reliance, which will take over management control of IPCL, will have two-thirds of India's three million tonne-a-year polymer market as a result of the deal. The group has also emerged as one of the largest producers in Asia of ethylene, a key petrochemical, with a capacity of 1.58 million tonnes a year.

Reliance Industries bought a 26 per cent stake in IPCL in 2002 from the government, and has subsequently raised its stake to over 46 per cent.

　

Singapore (Platts)--Oct 1 2002　

India Reliance mulls PVC plant expansion at ICPL's site

India's Reliance Industries is mulling a PVC plant expansion project at newly acquired Indian Petrochemicals Corp Ltd's PVC site at Gandhar, a source close to the company said Tuesday. IPCL currently operates a 150,000 mt/yr PVC plant at the Gandhar petrochemical complex in Dahej, Gujarat. The expansion plan would entail adding a further 150,000 mt/yr PVC capacity, either by debottlenecking or integrating a new plant to the existing one at the complex.

2003/5/19 Reliance

Reliance and DuPont Polyester Technologies sign agreement for R & D strategic alliance
　　http://www.prdomain.com/companies/r/reliance_ind/news_releases/200305may/pr_20030519.htm

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) and DuPont Polyester Technologies (DPT) today announced they have entered into a strategic R&D alliance to jointly develop advanced polyester process and product technologies in India.

This world-class facility will incorporate the latest polyester research equipment as well as pilot lines for high speed POY, FDY, PSF and bicomponent spinning and several unique polymerization pilot plants including one featuring the revolutionary new NG-3 PET resin technology by DuPont.

June 10, 2003 Financial Times

Reliance aims to be world's largest polyester producer/ Ties up with DuPont for joint research

Reliance Industries Ltd has said it plans to become the largest polyester producer in the world. The company plans to spend $30 million on research at the Reliance Technology Centre set up here to develop new polyester technology.

化学工業日報　2004/1/9

リライアンス、ＮＯＣＩＬから石化・樹脂事業を買収

　インドのリライアンス・インダストリーズは、同国のＮＯＣＩＬ（ナショナル・オーガニック・ケミカル）の石油化学と樹脂事業を買収する。ＮＯＣＩＬは２００２年から採算悪化を理由に石油化学プラントの稼働を中止しており、リライアンスはグループの生産技術を投入して設備を近代化し、自社の生産ネットワークに組み入れる。

* リライアンスは既にIPCLを買収している。

2004/1/7　Reliance

Reliance Associate signs MoU with NOCIL to take over Petrochemicals and Plastics Products divisions
　　http://www.ril.com/eportal/media/NewsDetails.jsp?page_id=72&id=N329

Sunbright, a business associate of Reliance, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Organic Chemicals Industries Limited (NOCIL) to take over its Petrochemicals and Plastics Products Divisions.

Under this proposal, the assets of NOCIL's Petrochemical Division, certain liabilities of the Company, and the business and undertaking of the Plastic Products Division as a going concern basis will be demerged from NOCIL and will be vested in Nocil Petrochemicals Limited (NPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of NOCIL. Sunbright will invest in equity of NPL after the process of demerger is completed.

The board of directors of NOCIL at its meeting held today has approved the restructuring proposal and the offer of Sunbright. NOCIL will be shortly filing a petition in the Bombay High Court under section 391 / 394 of the Companies Act, 1956, to give effect to this proposal after obtaining the necessary approval of the shareholders and creditors.

The proposed take over of NOCIL's petrochemical and plastics products division will provide significant synergies with existing petrochemicals businesses of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd (IPCL).

NOCIL's petrochemicals complex has total petrochemicals capacity of 300,000 tonnes per annum (tpa), which include an ethylene cracker of 80,000 tpa, value added chemicals 90,000 tpa, and fibre intermediates 20,000 tpa. In addition, the complex has a polymer capacity of 80,000 tpa. The Plastics products division at Akola, Maharashtra has a capacity of about 10,000 tonnes per annum of processed polymer products.

NOCIL's petrochemicals division, which is currently not in operation, will immensely gain from Reliance group's technical and manufacturing expertise. Already an ethylene pipeline links NOCIL's Petrochemicals Division in Navi Mumbai to IPCL's Nagothane plant.

Background information

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) is India's largest private sector company on all major financial parameters with gross turnover of Rs 65,061 crore (US$ 13.7 billion), cash profit of Rs 7,565 crore (US$ 1.6 billion), net profit of Rs 4,104 crore (US$ 864 million), net worth of Rs 30,327 crore (US$ 6.4 billion) and total assets of Rs 63,737 crore (US$ 13.4 billion). RIL features in the Forbes Global list of world's 400 best big companies and in FT Global 500 list of world's largest companies.

RIL has emerged as the 'Best Managed Company' in India in a study by Business Today and A.T. Kearney. RIL was named in the World's Most Respected Companies list published by Financial Times based on a global survey and research conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. RIL also emerged as the most respected among Indian companies and amongst the 10 most respected energy and chemical companies in the world.

Reliance Group

The Reliance Group founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002) is India's largest business house with total revenues of Rs 80,000 crore (US$ 16.8 billion), cash profit of over Rs 9,800 crore (US$ 2.1 billion), net profit of over Rs 4,700 crore (US$ 990 million) and exports of Rs 11,900 crore (US$ 2.5 billion). The group's activities span exploration and production (E&P) of oil and gas, refining and marketing, petrochemicals (polyester, polymers, and intermediates), textiles, financial services and insurance, power, telecom and infocom initiatives. Reliance has emerged as India's Most Admired Business House, for the third successive year in a TNS Mode survey for 2003.

2004/06/09 ＪＳＲ

インド Reliance Industries Limited にブタジエン製造技術を供与
http://release.nikkei.co.jp/detail.cfm?relID=73591

　ＪＳＲ（株）（社長：吉田　淑則）は、この度、インドの Reliance Industries Limited向けにブタジエン製造技術のライセンス供与に関して次のとおり契約を締結しました。同技術を使ったプラントの建設は６月より着工する予定です


１）相手先：インド　Reliance Industries Limited

２）対象技術：年産１４万トン、ブタジエン抽出技術

３）プラントサイト：インド　グジャラート州ハジラ
　　　　　　　　　　（７０万トン／年のナフサクラッカーのダウンストリーム）

４）本技術採用の理由：
　本技術は、ＪＳＲ（株）が独自に開発した、混合溶剤を用いるものです。従来の技術に比較し省エネルギー性に優れており、特に電気の使用量が、１／２から１／３になる最新鋭の画期的なものです。Ｒｅｌｉａｎｃｅ　Ｉｎｄｕｓｔｒｉｅｓ　Ｌｉｍｉｔｅｄ　が建設するブタジエン製造装置はインド国内で最大の生産能力を持ち、ＣＯ２削減など、地球環境にやさしい本技術が評価され採用されました。
　本技術は、中国、ロシア、韓国などに実績があります。

５）プラント着工：２００４年６月を予定

６）プラント完成：２００５年初めを予定

７）Reliance Industries Limited の概要
　会長：Shri Mukesh Ambani
　インド最大の財閥
　　　事業内容：石油・ガス、石油精製、石油化学、繊維、紡績、電力、通信、金融、保険
　　　売上：１３ billion US＄（約１兆４千億円）

Platts　2005/12/15 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Jamanagar製油所

India's Reliance to start up new polypropylene line by Feb/Mar

Reliance plans to start up its fourth 280,000 mt/yr polypropylene (PP) line in Jamnagar by late February or early March 2006, a company source said Thursday. Three PP lines of total capacity of 770,000 mt/yr in the same site were restarted in early December from debottlenecking.

The Jamnagar complex primarily has a 27-million tonnes per annum refinery of RPL that is fully integrated with downstream petrochemicals units of RIL, which manufacture naphtha-based aromatics as well as propylene-based polymers.

2006/1/23 Reliance

Reliance Group Announces A Unique Value Creating Opportunity
http://www.ril.com/rportal/jsp/eportal/media/PressRelease.jsp?id=368

Reliance Industries Limited today announced that Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL), it's newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, would be entering the capital market with its IPO sometime in the first half of 2006-07.

RPL is setting up an export oriented Refinery (27 MMTPA) and Polypropylene Plant (1 MMTPA) ('Project'), in a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Jamnagar, Gujarat at an estimated cost of USD6 billion. (approx. Rs27,000 crore).

Platts 2006/4/25

India's Reliance on track to start up new PTA plant by end-May

Indian refiner and petrochemicals giant Reliance Industries was set to start up its new 650,000 mt/year purified terephthalic acid plant by end-May, said a company source on Tuesday. The plant will be part of Reliance's petrochemical complex at Hazira, near Surat in Gujarat, India.

In the past five weeks, two new PTA plants have been successfully started up in Asia. China's Oriental Petrochemical (Shanghai) Corp has successfully brought onstream its 600,000 mt/year PTA plant in Shanghai. The plant started producing on-spec material on April 1. So far, operations have been smooth and OPC is expected to start selling PTA in the market by early May. The plant, which cost slightly less than $300 million, will run at 100% capacity once initial testing and start-up operations are completed. OPC was set up in January 2003 by the Taiwan's Far Eastern Group.

In mid-March, Indorama Thailand also successfully started up its 700,000 mt/year PTA plant at Rayong, Thailand. Its current operating rate was around 95%.

2004/6/24

Reliance to acquire Trevira (Europe)
To emerge as the Number One Global Polyester Fibre Producer

Reliance is to acquire Trevira, a leading producer of branded polyester fibres in Europe. An announcement to this effect was made by Mr. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited, at the company's Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on June 24, 2004.

Trevira has a manufacturing capacity of 130,000 tonnes per annum (polyester staple fibres, filament yarns, chips) spread over four locations in Europe namely Bobingen and Guben (Germany), Silkeborg (Denmark) and Quevaucamps (Belgium). In addition, it has a state-of-the-art research and development (R&D) facility at Bobingen. The agreement to acquire Trevira is subject to certain conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approval from the European Union. This acquisition, when consummated, will be the second international acquisition by Reliance and the first international acquisition in polyester.

2005/8/28 The Hindu Business Line

Reliance set to acquire BP's France, Belgium facilities

RELIANCE Industries Ltd is zeroing in on acquiring the refinery and petrochemicals facilities of BP Plc in France and Belgium.

Sources familiar with the development told Business Line that the due diligence exercise of BP, which had been on in Mumbai for the past few weeks, was now over.

Jamanagar製油所

Reliance Industries は2006年1月、既存のJamanagar製油所に近接した経済特区に新設する製油所（580万bpd）を建設・運営するReliance Petroleum を新たに設立した。

The Jamnagar complex primarily has a 27-million tonnes per annum refinery of RPL that is fully integrated with downstream petrochemicals units of RIL, which manufacture naphtha-based aromatics as well as propylene-based polymers.

April 12, 2006　Chevron 　　　Chevronが共同事業者として参加

Chevron Announces Agreements with Reliance to Purchase 5 Percent Stake in India Refinery and Collaborate on Energy Projects
　　Chevron invests $300 million to acquire position in Jamnagar export refinery with rights to increase stake to 29 percent

Chevron Corporation today announced that it will spend approximately $300 million to purchase five percent of Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL), a company formed by Reliance Industries Limited (Reliance) to own and operate a new export refinery being constructed in Jamnagar, India. RPL plans to commence an initial public offering (IPO) with the net offering to the public of 10 percent of the company from April 13, 2006 until April 20, 2006.

RPL plans to develop a 580,000 barrels per day crude capacity refinery, which is expected to begin operation in December 2008. Chevron has future rights to purchase additional shares to increase its equity ownership to 29 percent.

2006/3/10 Indian Business Insight

政府はDow Global との技術提携契約の申請を承認

インドの化学・石油化学省は、Reliance Petroleum がJamnagar経済特区に建設するPP装置のために申請していたDow Global Technologies との技術提携契約を承認した。

RPL is setting up a polypropylene plant at Jamnagar with a capacity of 9 lakh tonnes per annum (tpa). 　90万トン

Domain-B.com 2006/4/21

Dow Chemical may invest Rs5,000 crore in Reliance's Jamnagar SEZ

Dow Chemical, the US-based chemical major, may set up a large petrochemical facility in the Jamnagar SEZ of Reliance, next to the proposed Reliance Petroleum (RPL) refinery. According to unconfirmed media reports, Dow may invest up to Rs5,000 crore in the project.
（crore = 1000万ルピー, 20万ドル　　RS5,000crore =1 billion $)

Reliance had invited global petrochemical companies like Dow, Shell, Exxon Mobil and Mitsubishi Chemical to set up downstream units in the SEZ.

A manufacturing presence in India would offer these companies proximity to the fast growing Asian markets including China and India. They are also assured of feedstock from RPL's mega-refinery unlike western countries which are struggling from lack of refining capacity.

Dow is the technology vendor to the 9-lakh tonnes per annum polypropylene plant being set up by RPL as part of the refinery complex. RPL would pay $26.5 million for the technology.

The Dow Chemical Company is one of the largest specialty chemicals company in the world, known for its research and product innovation capabilities. The company has an asset base of $46 billion and total revenues for the year 2005 stood at $46.3 billion. The company employs more than 42,000 people globally and has a market cap of $39.5 billion.

Dow ranks 36 in the Fortune 500 list of largest American companies.

In 2001 Dow Chemical took over Union Carbide, the company behind the Bhopal gas tragedy. In March this year, a group of US-based investment funds wrote to Dow Chemical to pay $500 million to the victims of the gas tragedy. The company has refused to accept any liability so far.

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2002/12/6

Global Funds Tell Union Carbide To Settle Bhopal Gas Leak Claims
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=23259

A group of international investor funds which includes Trillium Asset Management, Domini Social Investments and the Calvert Group (together managing a combined asset value of $13 billion) have advised Union Carbide to settle claims of economic, health and environmental liabilities of over $500 million (Rs 2,500 crore) stemming out of the Bhopal gas leak. The company risks losing billions of dollars in market capitalisation if it fails to do so.

Reliance Industries Limited operates world-class manufacturing facilities at Naroda, Patalganga, Hazira and Jamnagar, all in western India.
The Naroda facility, near Ahmedabad, houses a textile plant on a 150 acre site. The Patalganga complex, near Mumbai, has polyester, fibre intermediates and linear alkyl benzene manufacturing plants and is spread over 200 acres of land. The Hazira complex, near Surat, has a naphtha cracker feeding downstream fibre intermediates, plastics and polyester plants and is spread over 700 acres of land. The Jamnagar complex has a petroleum refinery and associated petrochemical plants making plastics and fibre intermediates. It is spread over 7,400 acres of land.

The Jamnagar complex primarily has a 27-million tonnes per annum refinery of RPL that is fully integrated with downstream petrochemicals units of RIL, which manufacture naphtha-based aromatics as well as propylene-based polymers.

Reliance plans to start up its fourth 280,000 mt/yr polypropylene (PP) line in 2006.
Three PP lines of total capacity of 770,000 mt/yr in the same site

RPL is setting up an export oriented Refinery (27 MMTPA) and Polypropylene Plant (1 MMTPA), in a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Jamnagar, Gujarat at an estimated cost of USD6 billion. (approx. Rs27,000 crore).

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The Hazira complex of Reliance Industries is spread across 1000 acres of land on the banks of river Tapi, near Surat in Gujarat. The complex manufactures a wide range of Polymers, Polyesters, Fibre Intermediates and Petrochemicals.
The first phase of the complex was commissioned in 1991-92 to generate power/utility and to manufacture Ethylene Oxide (EO), Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG), Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM), Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC) and High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). A jetty was built for loading and unloading operation of raw material and final products.
The second phase of the project, started in 1995, involved commissioning of the Polyester Complex (POY & PSF) and continued in full backward integration with commissioning of the new Polypropylene (PP), Naphtha Cracker, Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plants and also involved expansion of existing phase 1 plants.

Total Investment
Over US$ 3 billion has been invested at RIL, Hazira.

Plants and Capacities

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Patalganga

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Naroda complex represents the largest investment in the textile industry at a single location.
Naroda complex is India’s most modern textile complex - a recognition bestowed by the World Bank.

2007/2/25　RIL

RIL board approves $3bn cracker project in Jamnagar.
　To set up largest integrated 2 MMTPA petrochemical complex
　RIL Board approves 12 Crore Preferential Warrants to promoters
　Dr. R A Mashelkar appointed Director on RIL Board

MARCH 08, 2007 REUTERS 　　　Reliance-IPCL merger in pipeline

Reliance and IPCL to merge?

Plans by Reliance Industries Ltd to absorb its Indian Petrochemicals Corp Ltd (IPCL) unit have been long expected and so were unlikely to significantly boost the unit's shares, analysts said.

Reliance, India's top petrochemicals maker, said on Wednesday its board would meet on March 10 to consider the amalgamation of IPCL with itself.

"This merger was always on the cards and the markets are not in a phase today where they will blindly take stocks higher," said V K Sharma, head of research at Anagram Stock Broking Ltd.

Analysts said IPCL shares may not see much upside on Thursday as the amalgamation would be in Reliance's favour, and that current stock prices could be the benchmark for the share swap ratio.

"Reliance's history shows that it always takes the cake when it merges some or the other entity with itself," Sharma said. Indian media said the market was speculating on a merger ratio of one share of Reliance for anywhere between three and six shares of IPCL.

"I don't want to speculate, but everyone knows that Reliance's share price is trading 6.5 times higher than IPCL's," said Jigar Shah, head of research at brokerage firm K R Choksey.

Reliance Industries bought a 26 per cent stake in IPCL in 2002 from the government, and has subsequently raised its stake to over 46 per cent.

In June 2002, the Government of India as a part of its disinvestment programme divested 26% of its equity shares in favour of Reliance Petroinvestments Limited (RPIL), a Reliance Group Company, India's fastest growing and most admired private sector group founded by visionary entrepreneur Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani. RPIL acquired an additional 20% equity sh

India Times 2007/5/16　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ブログ

RPL selects Dow technology for polypropylene

Reliance Petroleum Ltd, a unit of Reliance Industries building a refinery and petrochemical complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat, has selected Dow Chemical's technology for production of polypropylene.

RPL has selected the UNIPOL-PP Process for its 900,000 tons per annum polypropylene production unit at the special economic zone adjacent to RIL's existing Jamnagar complex.　　　既報では100万トン

"Startup is scheduled in December 2008," Dow Global Technologies Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Down Chemical Co, said in a press release here.

RIL, Asia's largest producer of polypropylene, currently operates four UNIPOL PP Process lines at its Jamnagar complex and two UNIPOL PP Process lines at its Hazira complex.

"The new facility will produce a full range of homopolymers to supply the growing markets in Asia," it said.

Licensees of the UNIPOL PP Process operate more than 35 production lines around the world, accounting for more than 5.5 million tons of global polypropylene production.

September 4, 2007 Reliance

Reliance makes a strategic acquisition in East Africa
Towards global ambitions in the petroleum sector

Reliance has acquired a Majority stake and Management control of Gulf Africa Petroleum Corporation (GAPCO), a company which has a significant presence in East Africa in the petroleum downstream sector. The acquisition has been made through a wholly owned subsidiary, Reliance Industries Middle East, Dmcc (RIME), a company registered in United Arab Emirates.
GAPCO, an entity based in East and Central Africa with headquarters in Mauritius, owns and operates large storage terminalling facilities and a retail distribution network in several countries - including Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya. It also owns and operates large storage terminals in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Mombassa (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda) and has other well spread depots in East & Central Africa. It also operates more than 250 Outlets covering retail and industrial segments.

The deal, which is one of the biggest mergers in recent years in the region, will see Reliance controlling a 51% majority stake in the Gapco Group, while the Kotak family will now remain with 49%.
Gapco Group is a regional multinational company which has heavily invested in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Sudan.

December 4, 2007 Reliance

GAIL - RIL Sign MoU To Set Up Petrochemical Plants globally

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and GAIL (India) Limited today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Joint Co-operation in Petrochemicals.

Under the MoU, GAIL and RIL will explore opportunities for setting up petrochemical complexes outside of India in feedstock rich countries. Identified opportunities will be examined by a Working Group, consisting of representatives from both the companies. GAIL and RIL will set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for setting up petrochemical complexes abroad.
The Working Group is examining such opportunities in Middle East, Russia and FSU (former Soviet Union) countries.
In addition, the two companies will also examine the possibilities of mutual co-operation in the domestic market.

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Dec.17, 2007 economictimes.indiatimes.com

Reliance, GAIL identify 10 countries for petrochemical plant

Reliance Industries, India's most valued company, and state-run gas firm GAIL India have identified 10 countries including Qatar, Australia and Russia for setting up a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical plant.

An MoU signed by RIL and GAIL on December 4 lists Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa, Angola, Mexico, Russia and Former Soviet Union countries as areas where the two would explore jointly establishing up to 2 million tons chemical plant.


Back home, the two companies would also cooperate in areas of distribution and marketing of petrochemicals, including 'product-swapping'.

Jun 12, 2008 Thomson Financial via COMTEX

Reliance says to add 900,000 tonnes/yr polypropylene capacity at Jamnagar

Reliance Industries Ltd. said the company will commission a 900,000 tonne per annum polypropylene facility this year at its flagship Jamnagar site in the western state of Gujarat, making it the world's third-largest producer.
At the company's AGM on Thursday chairman Mukesh Ambani said it will also commission a 580,000 barrels per day oil refinery at Jamnagar "earlier than scheduled" this year.

　

The 7th largest manufacturer of Polypropylene (PP) in the world, Reliance would shortly be amongst the top five global producers of PP with the capacity reaching 2835 KTA from the present capacity of 1,735 KTA　　(上記増設前)

Reliance Polymers offers the entire range of Polyethylene (PE) viz. High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), Linear Low-density Polyethylene (LLDPE) and Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) with a total capacity of 990 KTA.

Reliance Polymers is India's largest manufacturer of suspension grade Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), with a capacity of 625 KTA per annum and a wide range of viscosities.

Platts 2008/7/8

Reliance plans a 200 kt/yr PET plant for Kinston, NC by end 2009

India's Reliance Industries plans to build and have online a 200,000 mt/year bottle resin PET plant in Kinston, North Carolina, by the end of 2009, a source close to the company said Tuesday.


The site currently produces polyester yarn (POY) but Reliance plans on taking the spinning machines from Kinston back to India where the company would produce POY to sell in India's growing polyester market.

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June 21, 2008 　journalnow.com

Unifi Kinston LLC subsidiary sold to Reliance Industries

Unifi Inc. said in a regulatory filing that its Unifi Kinston LLC subsidiary has sold its polyester-manufacturing plant in Kinston for $12.2 million to Reliance Industries USA Inc.

Unifi said that the subsidiary would pay E.I. DuPont de Nemours about $3.7 million to satisfy certain demolition and removal obligations created by the sale of the assets.

Unifi said that it expects to record a gain of about $6.9 million when the sale closes in the first half of 2009.