Committed To Environment In Every Aspect Of Refining

1. Measures are taken for the protection of the environment from the design stage.
2. The process Units are heat integrated to the possible extent to achieve higher overall thermal efficiency of the Refinery, thereby reducing fuel oil or fuel gas consumption and emissions.
3. Continuous monitoring of SOx, NOx and CO analyzers in stacks
4. Low NOx burners provided in various heaters to reduce NOx emissions
5. Continuous ambient air quality monitoring station installed in Refinery for monitoring real time concentrations.
6. Secondary Seals are provided for all floating tanks for reducing Fugitive Emissions
7. Low Sulphur fuel oil is used in furnaces (less than 1 percent)
8. Periodic VOC Emissions monitoring & Noise Level monitoring being conducted in the Refinery
9. Amine Treating Unit scrubs Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) from Fuel Gas. The Sour Water Stripper Unit strips the hydrogen sulphide off the process waste water
10. Highly efficient Sulphur Recovery Unit (99 percent Recovery) licensed by M/s KTI, Italy, recovers elemental Sulphur from hydrogen Sulphide. Out of three SRUs, two SRUs kept running and another kept stand by.
11. Advanced technology for treating Refinery waste water has been adopted

Waste Water Treatment

The state-of-the-art Modern Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) that has been installed to treat Refinery waste water containing Sulphide, Phenol, Oil & Grease etc., and thus meeting the limits of MoEF Standards / KSPCB Standards. The treatment consists of Physical Separation, Chemical and Biological Treatment and Final Filtration with Polishing. The treated waste water is discharged into the sea through APMC open pond, at a distance of 650 M. and at a depth of 6.5 M. The discharge point was selected by the National Institute of Oceanography after carrying out a detailed study on the effect of this stream on marine life. The quality of the treated waste water and marine environment around the discharge point is monitored by an independent agency all round the year. 70% of the treated effluent is recycled back and used in the Refinery for cooling towers. In actual practice, the treated waste water quality surpasses the KSPCB standards. MRPL has stringent internal targets compared to MINAS/KSPCB. MRPL has developed and implemented a process for treating the effluent with Hydrogen Peroxide, which reduces the sludge formation. There is constant monitoring of the quality of the treated waste water and air emissions. MRPL is a certified ISO 14001:2004 and possess excellence in environmental performance.

Awards and Certificate

• Refinery received Environment Excellence Award from Greentech Foundation, New Delhi for the year 2003-04 & 2004-05.
• Refinery received Golden Peacook Environment Management Award for the year 2004-05 from World Environment Foundation, New Delhi.
• Refinery received Gold Award for Environment Excellence Award from Greentech Foundation, New Delhi for the year 2007-08.

Biogas Plant:

An anaerobic garbage treating Biogas plant is installed for treating organic food wastes of MRPL township and refinery. By this, entire food waste of township and refinery is bio-treated in an environment friendly plant producing Bio-gas as well as an excellent organic compost for plants/greenery.

Landscaping:

It is often said that the best place to seek god is in garden. But the question is how to keep the garden beautiful. To keep the garden alive, one should be aware of the basic needs of gardening because gardening is an art & science.

MRPL has created such surroundings which is full of natural settings- the wild flowing streams, the tall green trees, the smooth carpet of green grass & myriad variety of flowers, blooming in different colours & size presenting a riot of colours, the nature is full of such beautiful things. No one can resist nature. It sooths any amount of fried & tense nerves & brings the peace of mind- the ut most necessity of human life. A garden is a piece of art that pleases eyes- it is poetry demonstrated.

MRPL has developed gardens in the office premises as well as in the colony bringing the nature, natural settings near to ones house, creating an illusion of nature around him, turning his captivity in civilized world lively, attempting to make life peaceful in a natural settings & surroundings.

More than 25 acres of garden is well developed in the colony as well as office premises consisting of lush green lawns, different types of hedges, different flowering & non flowering shrubs, ground covers, Rockery & water cascades. This beautiful garden of MRPL received first prize in the large scale garden competition of the flower exhibition- 2001 conducted by Govt. Horticulture dept. & Siri horticulture society- Mangalore

Environment Clearance for Revamp Project
Environment Statement for Refinery
View MRPL's Environment Policy

MOEF Half Yearly Compliance Reports