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Madras Refineries formed as a joint venture

· Manali, Chennai

Madras Refineries Limited was formed by the Government of India, Amoco and the National Iranian Oil Company to build a refinery at Manali.

Madras Refineries Limited was formed in 1965 as a joint venture of the Government of India, Amoco and the National Iranian Oil Company. Its refinery at Manali in north Madras became the anchor of a petrochemical and fertiliser industrial belt. From 1969 the refinery was connected to the Madras port by a 17 km crude oil pipeline. The company was later renamed Chennai Petroleum Corporation and became a subsidiary of Indian Oil.

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