Danbury-based Praxair Inc. is building an industrial-gas manufacturing plant in India as part of a contract to supply the country’s national oil company with hydrogen and nitrogen for its newest oil refinery.
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. is outsourcing its gas-supply production to Praxair India, which is investing an undisclosed amount to build a hydrogen-nitrogen plant at the $6.5 billion refinery due to open in early 2012 at Paradip, Orissa on India’s eastern coast, the companies said.
Praxair daily will supply 90 million standard cubic feet of hydrogen and 500 tons of nitrogen to the plant, officials said.
Indian Oil’s refinery will use the hydrogen to process various crude oil slates and the production of low sulfur, clean fuels at the 300,000-barrel-per-day refinery.
Paradip will boost Indian Oil’s daily refining capacity from 1.2 million barrels per day to more than 1.62 million barrels daily.
