THE JAMNAGAR OIL REFINERY

 

The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of 668,000 barrels per day (106,200 m3/d). Its current installed capacity is 1,240,000 barrels per day (197,000 m3/d). It is currently the largest refinery in the world.  The entire complex, as of 2013, consists of manufacturing and allied facilities, utilities, off-sites, port facilities and a township (415 acres) with housing for its 2,500 employees, on over 7,500 acres (11.7 sq mi) of land. If all the pipes used in the refinery were laid out, one after another, they would connect the whole of India from north to south.

THE JAMNAGAR REFINERY AT NIGHT

THE GEYSERS POWER PLANT

The Geysers is the world’s largest geothermal field, containing a complex of 18 geothermal power plants, drawing steam from more than 350 wells, located in Mayacamas Mountains, approximately 72 miles north of San Francisco. Power plants at the Geysers are of the dry steam power plant type, where the steam directly powers the generator. In general, the Geysers has 1517 MW of installed capacity with n average production facto of 63% (955 MW).