Fire broke at Essar Refinery

Essar Oil at Khambhalia Police Station in Jamnagar district, by the relative of a person who died in the fire which broke out in the pipeline of Vadinar terminal of the company on Feburary 1.

Ratakumar Mandal whose relative was one among four persons who died in the fire registered the complaint on Saturday, police said.

 
 
The complainant has said that four persons died and 18 were injured when they were working to repair the pipeline which was already leaking. Four labourers were killed and 16 others injured when a fire had broke out in a pipeline of Essar Oil's Vadinar terminal.

However, the fire was quickly doused by fire tenders of the company and the injured contract workers were rushed to hospital for treatment.

The fire has not affected the functioning of the refinery and it continued working normally as the pipeline where the fire broke out was far from the terminal.

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Brip

Fire in Essar oil refinery

Essar Oil is in trouble, a Compalint is filed at Khambhalia Police Station in Jamnagar district.

By the relative of a person who died in the fire which broke out in the pipeline of Vadinar terminal of the company on Feburary 1.

 

Ratakumar Mandal whose relative was one among four persons who died in the fire registered the complaint on Saturday. 
 
Four persons died and 18 were injured when they were working to repair the pipeline which was already leaking.

Four labourers were killed and 16 others injured when a fire had broke out in a pipeline of Essar Oil's Vadinar terminal.

 

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Brip

Do you know - Reliance Jamnagar Township

Nita Ambani was in-charge of Reliance Jamnagar Township construction and of-course for the Reliance greens, which produces best and highest quality of mangoes in Asia.

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Asiatic Lions will have new home

State Government has decided to introduce big cats to the region of Barda Hills lying between Porbandar and Jamnagar, this eliminates the possibility of shifting the Gir lion to Madhya Prades, Barda with the 192.35 sq km of undulating terrain is declared as Sanctury, but is yet to get its share of lion population.

As a preparation for this, breeding centre for antelopes and hare was started sometime ago.
The region already has a healthy population of blue bull and wild boar.

The minister said apart from Barda, the area between Savarkundla and Mahuva spread over 125 sq km too was being strengthened as a lion habitat.

Asiatic lion population is spread over 1450 sq km in the State, with the last census pegging the figure at 359.

 

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Brip

Jamnagar - Reliance Retail Rocks

Reliance Retail will launch its first hypermarket in March in Ahmedabad.

Its hypermarkets, will be called Reliance Mart, will house boutique hotels. Of the company's 1,500 hypermarkets, 30 will come up in Gujarat.

The first hypermarket, earlier scheduled for December at Iscon Mega Mall near SG Highway in the city, will now roll out in the first quarter of next year.

Parimal Nathwani, group president, corporate affairs, Reliance Retail, said: "Our first hypermarket is scheduled to be launched in March on SG Highway."

Sources added that Reliance Retail has purchased 2 lakh sq ft at Iskon Mall in Ahmedabad for Rs 9 crore. The company has paid Rs 7 crore as stamp duty, the highest paid by any construction firm in the state, sources added.

"The refinery in Moti Khawadi is spread over 5 lakh sq ft and will house a hotel and multiplex. The company has roped in foreign architects for this project," a realtor from Jamnagar said.

Besides, Reliance will open retail outlets in Jamnagar, Rajkot, Surat and Bhavnagar as well, sources said. Reliance has also leased 1.25 lakh sq ft at a shopping location in Greater Noida.

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Brip

Jamnagar - Essar begs 1000 MW Plant

Essar Power has finally bagged a power project from the Gujarat government after a long bidding process.

The project estimated at Rs 40 billion, essentially envisages a 1,000 MW imported coal based power project in Jamnagar.

 

Essar Power had quoted Rs 2.40 per unit as the lowest bid for the power project as against China Light & Power Hong Kong, Tata Power, Torrent Power who were also in the race.

Recently, the appellate electricity tribunal set aside the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission`s (CERC) order prohibiting Essar Power from selling electricity to trading companies and entering into pacts with distribution companies directly for its 1,500 MW project in Gujarat.

Essar, which is likely to commission 750 MW capacity by April 2007, had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with PTC in August 2004, under which it agreed to sell the entire power to the trading company for 25 years. PTC, in turn, was to sell the electricity to state utilities.


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Brip

Jamnagar - 1K MW RIL Power plant

Reliance Industries (RIL) is planning to set up India's first integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant in Jamnagar at an investment outlay of Rs 10,000 crore.

 

RIL will use petcoke, a refinery residue which is usually blended with coal to be used as fuel for power plants.

 

The IGCC technology would provide for the petcoke to be gasified before it can be used to produce heat and electricity, fertilisers, hydrogen and petrochemicals this powerplant will generate at least 1,000 mw

 

The increased power capacity will be utilized by RIL to meet its increased requirement, and also by other players setting shop within the RIL SEZ.


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Brip

Privatisation of Drinking Water System

THE BJP government in Gujarat has, it seems, decided to privatise the drinking water distribution system in entire Gujarat. 

 

In fact, all the concerned officials and others have been alerted to remain prepared for it. They want to keep the people in dark on this issue and suddenly embark upon water supply privatisation silently. 

 

Four main districts selected for such sudden introduction of water privatisation are Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Surat and Kutch.

  

Drinking water distributions privatisation is being suddenly taken up in the background of the idea of developing a total of 33 special economic zones (SEZs), 8 of which have already been sanctioned.

 

One of these SEZs to come into existence will be in Jamnagar with its hinterland, covering ten thousand acres, under the joint tutelage of Reliance and a giant multinational. One so-called Gujarat Water Infrastructure Development Company (GWIDC) had prepared a proposal and plan for Maliya Kutch area, for water distribution from Bhachau (Kutch) to Maliya. The people's guess is that the said proposal has already been sanctioned.

 

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Brip

Crude found from water well

it seems Jamnagar has something to do with Crude and Petrol,

 

Farmers of Thavaria and Moda village , which are 20kms from Jamnagar reported Crude oil is coming out of water well in their farms, nearby villages like Alia bada, Moda , theba etc do have reported the same incident.

 

This oil is supposed to come from a leakage in I.O.C pipeline near this farms, however Regional I.O.C. officers declined this assumption, which leads to a theory that there is crude oil deposit beneath this wells ( and that also can be extracted from normal water table level ) :)

 

It would be ideal to send the Oil to Laboratory and analyse the results

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Brip

Jamnagar - Judge terminated

8 Fast Track Judges were terminated by State Law yesterday,

This includes Chetnaben Shah ( Jamnagar Judge - Fast Track court) , along with her Upleta, Rajkot, Kutch, Godra and Nadiad judges were also Terminated from service

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Brip