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DREAM Refinery Project Site

The DREAM Refinery project site is a virtual manufacturing complex located on the east coast in the Tamil Nadu region for addressing India’s strategic push to rebalance refining capacity eastward — strengthening energy security, leveraging emerging Bay of Bengal offshore exploration, and positioning for trade with the Southeast Asia-Pacific region. This model integrated refinery-petrochemical complex represents a next-generation grassroots Indian refinery conceived for a maximum of flexibility between distillate fuels and petrochemicals, with a design orientation toward maximizing petrochemical output. 

Key Configuration Highlights

• 20 million tonnes per annum crude throughput (single-train crude distillation)
• Steam cracker targeting 1.7–2.0 million tonnes per annum ethylene (multi-feed: LPG, light/heavy naphtha, light kerosene)
• Integrated aromatics complex of 1.2–1.5 million tonnes (BTX/PX maximization)
• High-severity Petro FCC targeting ~20% propylene yield, with off-gas ethylene recovery
• Bottom-of-the-barrel upgrading via slurry hydrocracker and delayed coker combination
• Petcoke-fired CFB steam generation and grid-integrated power strategy
• Total petrochemical conversion rate of 40–43% of crude intake

Roadmap

The base configuration serves as a reference case for comparative scenarios to be developed on the platform, including green hydrogen integration, CO₂ abatement and CCS, SAF production, coal/petcoke gasification-to-chemicals, renewable power integration, green ammonia, and SMR nuclear power.

Subsequent development phases will cover cost estimation, financing and bankability, and implementation planning — with the intention of opening selected scenarios to the ppPLUS community for collaborative evaluation and challenge.