(TNIE)
Minister of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday visited Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) Visakh Refinery and crude distillation unit (CDU) and full conversion hydrocracker unit (FCHCU) under modernsiation project.HPCL Chairperson and Managing Director MK Surana explained to the minister about the progress and features of Visakh Refinery Modernisation Project.
Major equipment such as longest CDU column, widest VDU column and heaviest reactor were built by L&T and they were transported from Hazira to HPCL at Visakhapatnam via sea route and installed at CDU-4 and FCHCU project sites.