Mukesh Ambani Sends Oxygen From His Refineries For Covid Fight

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd has started supplying oxygen from Jamnagar in Gujarat to Maharashtra at no cost, according to a company official.

Mukesh Ambani Sends Oxygen From His Refineries For Covid Fight

Reliance Industries Ltd operates the world’s biggest refining complex in Maharashtra.



Billionaire Mukesh Ambani is diverting oxygen produced at his refineries to help India battle a savage coronavirus outbreak that’s paralyzed the commercial capital Mumbai in Maharashtra as daily new infections spike by a record.

Mr Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd, which operates the world’s biggest refining complex in Maharashtra, has started supplying oxygen from Jamnagar in Gujarat to Maharashtra at no cost, according to a company official, who asked not to be identified due to internal policy.

The state will get 100 tons of the gas from Reliance, Eknath Shinde, urban development minister, said in a tweet.

India is witnessing a second wave of COVID-19 infections that has caught the centre and state governments unprepared, with local media reporting that patients are dying due to a shortage of oxygen and hospital beds. Maharashtra is home to the financial hub of Mumbai where the fresh outbreak is most severe, and where Mr Ambani officially resides and Reliance has its headquarters.

Reliance is diverting some oxygen streams meant for its petroleum coke gasification units after making it suitable for medical use, the official said. A company spokesman couldn’t immediately comment.

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Reliance is diverting some oxygen streams meant for its petroleum coke gasification units.

Separately, state-run Bharat Petroleum Corp has built up a stockpile of 20 tons of oxygen at its Kochi refinery in Kerala that it is supplying to bottlers for medical use, a company official said. Nobody responded to an email sent to BPCL’s press office.

Refineries can produce limited volumes of industrial oxygen in air-separation plants meant for nitrogen production. Medical-use oxygen can be extracted by scrubbing out other gases, such as carbon dioxide, to make it 99.9 per cent pure.


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