Thick smoke rises from the HPCL Pachpadra Refinery in the Balotra district, Rajasthan, on April 20, 2026.
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Restoration work at Hindustan Petroleum’s a refinery-cum-petrochemical advanced in Rajasthan’s Balotra district, which caught fireplace earlier than its inauguration earlier this week, is in progress and is expected to be accomplished in the subsequent three to 4 weeks, the state-owned oil-marketing firm knowledgeable in a social media put up on Saturday night (April 25, 2026).
It added that the crude distillation unit, which is the first unit of any refinery, is expected to restart in the “second fortnight of May this year” while the opposite secondary models are already at a sophisticated stage of commissioning as deliberate.
Published – April 25, 2026 10:03 pm IST