India’s Essar Oil plans to double the throughput of its refinery and create a petrochemical facility in the long-term, a Rosneft’s spokesman told Reuters in emailed comments on August 21.
Spokesman for Rosneft, which bought a 49 percent stake in Essar Oil, also said that Essar will increase the number of filling stations to 5,500 from current 3,500 stations in the medium term.