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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.

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