The Hindu Business Line : Water scarcity forces MRPL to partially shut down units

DUE to acute shortage and non-availability of raw water from the Netravati River , the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), a subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd, has been forced to partially shut down some of the units in Phase-I of the refinery.

A company press release said here on Thursday that operations of MRPL have been affected due to acute shortage of raw water.

Initially, the company had reduced throughput of the refinery.

However, due to persistent shortage, it was forced to take up partial shut down in some of the units in Phase-I (3.69 million tonne per annum) of the refinery.

The release said that the company is in touch with Dakshina Kannada district authorities and the Karnataka Government for increasing water availability.

If the present situation continues, the operations of Phase-II (six million tonne per annum) of the refinery may also get severely affected, the release added.

It may be mentioned here that the Dakshina Kannada district administration has asked MRPL not to pump water from Sarapady Dam, constructed along the Netravati.

This followed a request by Mangalore City Corporation in this regard.

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