Projects worth up to Rs 15,000 crore has been lined up by Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) in coming years that includes a raw petroleum coke gas complex.

H Kumar, Managing Director at MRPL has said in a release that the company intended to produce ‘Syngas’ (synthetic gas) and subsequently to produce value-added chemicals, such as urea (fertiliser), acetic acid, acryilate among others and production of linear alkyl benzene (LAB)-a feed stock to produce detergents.

M venkatesh, Director (Refineries) has said that MRPL had to upgrade facilities in the wake of the Centre’s autofuel up gradation policy for producing BS VI grade fuel by April 2020.

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