Looking to build smaller refineries to avoid land acquisition hurdles: Puri

The Centre will focus on setting up relatively-smaller oil refineries, with capacities of around 20 MMTPA (million metric tonnes per annum), instead of the larger ones planned till now, petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said.

He was speaking at the inaugural energy summit organised by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce-North India Council (IACC-NIC).

Puri said that expanding the country’s refinery capacity to 450 MMTPA remains a key focus area and certain policy decisions would follow.

“If we make it too big, then land acquisition and other issues will come up,” he stressed.