OREANDA-NEWS. Revival of FCIL unit of Talcher through coal gasification technology is proposed through a joint Venture, to be set up soon. This was decided in a meeting under the chairmanship of the Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Shri Ananth Kumar in New Delhi today. The meeting was also attended by the Minster for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan and the Minister for Power and Coal Shri Piyush Goyal. As though, as a part of new mode for good governance, the ministers finalized some of the decisions then and there giving policy directions to the senior officials of their three ministries. It was a joint meeting of the concerned ministers and senior officials of all these ministries.

Issues like location and reservation of coal blocks for this fertilizer unit for the coal gasification purpose were discussed thread bare. The proposed Joint Venture partners, Fertilizer Corporation of India, Gas Authority Of India Limited, Coal India Limited and Rashtriya Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited also gave their views for firming up of the Joint Venture for the project.

Revival of closed unit of FCIL of Gorakhpur and HFCL Unit of Barauni also came up for detailed discussion. The Petroleum minister informed that his ministry has decided to give gas for the Gorakhpur fertilizer unit for its immediate revival. He also informed the meeting that preparations will also be made for setting the gas pipeline for the revival of Barauni plant.

Shri Ananth Kumar who chaired the meeting asked the officials about various alternate arrangements for looking into possibilities of providing the Gas pipeline connectivity to Madras Fertilisers Limited – Manali (MFL), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited, Mangalore (MCFL) and Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Limited , Tuticorin,(SPIC), as they were closed due to earlier decisions, being Naphtha based units. The meeting discussed ways and means to supply gas to these units

The Minister heldd detailed discussions to take all the above projects on a fast track mode.