State-run Indian Oil will more than treble its capex to Rs 1.75 trillion over the next seven years against what it spent in the past five years, with a view to expand refining output by 54 per cent to around 100 mt tonnes, investing Rs 50,000 crore in brownfield expansion alone.
For the current Plan period (12th Plan ending 2017), nation’s largest refiner Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has set aside Rs 56,200 crore in capex, most of which went into the 15 million tonnes (mt) Rs 34,500-crore greenfield refinery in Paradeep that will go onstream from late next month or early November, chairman B Ashok said here today.