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GAIL owns and operates a gas based Petrochemical Complex at PATA, District Auraiya, near Kanpur in UP (around 380 km from Delhi). GAIL has a “Sclairtech” solution polymerization process licensed from M/s Nova Chemicals, Canada to produce LLDPE and HDPE, with a nameplate capacity of 210,000 MT/annum and has two slurry based polymerization processes licensed from M/s Mitsui Chemicals, Japan to produce HDPE, each with a nameplate capacity of 100,000 MT/annum and has a gas phase Unipol PE Process of M/s Univation Technology, USA, with a nameplate capacity of 400,000 MT/ annum to produce HDPE/LLDPE.

GAIL is diversifying its Petrochemical business by entering into Polypropylene business. GAIL is setting up a 500 KTA PP plant based on PDH technology at Usar, Maharashtra to be commissioned by 2025 and another 60 KTA PP plant is also being set up at PATA petrochemical complex to be commissioned by 2024. M/s W R Grace is the technology Licensor for both the upcoming PP plants and will be utilizing Unipol PP process technology with latest generation catalyst to produce world class PP products. Homopolymer Polypropylene grades will be produced at Usar PP plant whereas both Homopolymer as well as Co-Polymer Polypropylene grades will be produced from Pata PP plant.