Visakhapatnam (Visakh) Refinery is one of the two oil refineries of HPCL in India, the other being Mumbai Refinery. A brief history of Visakh Refinery is underneath.

In 1957, Visakh Refinery went on stream under the responsibility for/s Caltex India Ltd. In May, 1978, M/s Caltex Oil Refinery (India) was amalgamated with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. The introduced limit of 1.5 MMTPA was expanded to 4.5 MMTPA in 1985 and 7.5 MMTPA in 1999, through a development program.

VRCFP (Visakh Refinery Clean Fuels Project)

The rundown of improvement of the refinery is given beneath:

The main East Coast Oil refinery was charged as Caltex Oil Refining India Ltd. (CORIL) in 1957 with a rough preparing limit of 0.65 MMTPA

The refinery was in this manner assumed control by Government of India in 1976 and converged with HPCL in 1978

The refinery's unrefined refining limit expanded to 4.5 MMTPA amid the primary development in 1985

The refinery's unrefined refining limit expanded to a further 7.5 MMTPA amid the second development in 1999 and is as of now 8.3MMTPA successful April 2010

Diesel Hydro desulphurization (DHDS) task was charged in the year 2000 to meet BS-I/II particular of diesel. The offices were further expanded in 2005 by expansion of second Reactor in DHDS unit for supplying BS-III evaluation diesel