As you want to know the location of Second Oil Refinery Of HPCL

The Visakh Refinery is second largest integrated oil company in India.

It locate at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

Visakh Refinery

The Visakh Refinery is also a vital contributor to HPCL's Petroleum products requirements Visakha Refinery was specially made with an installed capacity of 0.65 Million Metric Tonnes Per Annum (MMTPA) by Caltex Oil Refining (India) Ltd. in 1957.

This was one of the first major industries of Visakhapatnam and first oil refinery on the East Coast.

After the nationalization, HPCL has transformed itself into a mega Public Sector Undertaking and it is second largest integrated oil company in India.

The summary of development of the refinery is given below:

The first East Coast Oil refinery was custom-built as Caltex Oil Refining India Ltd. (CORIL) in 1957 with a crude processing capacity of 0.65 MMTPA

The refinery was afterward taken over by Government of India in 1976 and merged with HPCL in 1978

The refinery's crude refining capacity increased to 4.5 MMTPA during the first expansion in 1985

The refinery's crude refining capacity increased to a further 7.5 MMTPA during the second expansion in 1999 and is currently 8.3MMTPA effective April 2010