Vadodara: A fire broke out in the Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) oil refinery plant at Koyali near Vadodara late this afternoon after a blast. Fire control efforts were continuing even after midnight. One person, namely Dhimant Makwana, has died in this incident. He was a resident of Tarapur. His death is registered as an accidental death. The smoke from this fire was visible kilometers away. Fire foam tenders and fighters were called from nearby towns and cities. The tank that first caught fi...Read More

Paris: Ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this weekend, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today announced that Nita M. Ambani, leading Indian philanthropist and Founder of the Reliance Foundation has been re-elected unanimously as IOC member from India at the 142nd IOC session in Paris that is currently underway, winning unanimously with 100% of the vote. Speaking after her re-election, Mrs Nita. M. Ambani said “I am deeply honored to be re-elected as ...Read More

Mumbai: Jio wins IOCL order for providing SD-WAN solution that will power IOCL’s retail automation and critical business processes, such as payment processing, daily price updates, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) software and network monitoring with enterprise-grade connectivity, Quality of Service (QOS) and 24x7 support across 28 states and 8 union territories. JioBusiness, the Enterprise arm of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd will be deploying and managing SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Netw...Read More

Gandhinagar: Central public sector undertaking, Indian Oil Corporation has approved the investment proposal of more than ₹4000 Crore in Gujarat for a PVC (polyvinyl chloride) manufacturing facility. According to sources, the Corporation board approved the investment proposal recently, so that India can reduce its dependency on the import of resin which has huge demand in sectors such as Infrastructure, pipe making, cellphones and automobiles. With imports of more than 2 Million tons, Ind...Read More

Narmada: Aspirational district Narmada in Gujarat has received Rs. 90 lakh worth two ICU on wheels ambulances from Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme in addition to Rs. 50 lakh robot machine for gutter cleaning. Under the Aspirational District scheme initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Narmada district has in the past also received the best possible ambulances, health and other infrastructure facilities. DeshGujaratRead More

Gandhinagar: A memorandum of understanding was signed today between Government of Gujarat and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) today in the presence of Chief Minister Rupani and union petroleum, natural gas and steel minister Dharmendra Pradhan here for expansion of IOCL Gujarat Refinery. Gujarat is petrochemical's mother bed, leading country's petrochemicals sector, said Dharmendra Pradhan. As per MoU signed today, IOCL will set up six projects investing Rs. 24,000 crore and create direct ...Read More

Vadodara: India Oil Corporation's Gujarat Refinery, which completed 50 years of operations today, said it has invested Rs 1,330 crore to upgrade its systems to supply BS-IV fuels from next year. "We have invested Rs 1,330 crore to revamp our systems to make BS-IV complaint diesel and petrol from next year, refinery director Sanjiv Singh told PTI. The 13.7 million metric tonne Gujarat Refinery was dedicated to the nation on October 18, 1966. The refinery was started with capacity of 2 ...Read More

Vadodara: The Gujarat government is conducting a social impact assessment for acquisition of about 33 hectares of land in three villages of Vadodara for the expansion of Indian Oil Corporation's refinery here. The state revenue department has issued a notification for a social impact assessment (SIA) for acquisition of about 33 hectares land in three villages of Vadodara by the state government. According to the notification issued on June 21 under Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Rese...Read More