Question : PANIPAT REFINERY

whether the total cost of the construction of the Panipat Refinery has exceeded the initially estimated cost; if so, the extent of the gap in the initially estimated cost and the actual expenditure incurred; whether several foreign agencies were also engaged in the construction of this refinery; and if so, the details thereof and the amount paid to them for construction of the refinery separately, country-wise?

Answer given by the minister



MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS

(SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

(a) No Sir.

(b) Does not arise.

(c)&(d): No foreign agencies were engaged in the construction work of this refinery. However technologies were supplied by foreign process licensors for some of the units in the refinery.