India sets refinery-wise LPG output targets; Reliance Jamnagar gets largest quota
The government has set maximum LPG production targets for 21 refiners and upstream firms to activate during supply disruptions. Reliance’s Jamnagar DTA refinery has the largest allocation at 18,000 tonnes a day, amid India’s heavy dependence on LPG imports.
What happened
Reliance Industries · India has set facility-wise LPG output targets for 21 refiners and upstream producers during supply disruptions. Reliance's Jamnagar DTA
Key facts
- 21 refineries and upstream companies
- 63,810 tonnes of LPG per day maximum combined target
- Reliance Jamnagar DTA refinery: 18,000 tonnes per day
- Public-sector refineries: 31,470 tonnes per day
- Nayara Vadinar refinery: 4,480 tonnes per day
- ONGC and GAIL combined: 6,460 tonnes per day
- India LPG consumption in 2025-26: 33.2 million tonnes
- India domestic LPG production in 2025-26: 13.1 million tonnes
- Imports: 21.3 million tonnes, over 64% of demand
Why this matters
Energy, logistics and retail groups should evaluate storage, evacuation and distribution partnerships around designated refiners as the new framework incentivizes resilient LPG delivery infrastructure.
What to watch
- Notification of enforceable compliance rules, penalties, reporting requirements and activation conditions for refinery targets.
- Capital-spending announcements for LPG storage, bottling plants, pipelines, rail loading and cylinder fleets.
- Changes in LPG import volumes, Saudi contract prices, freight rates or disruption risk in key shipping routes.
- Refinery outages at Jamnagar or other high-allocation facilities.
- Domestic LPG subsidy revisions, cylinder retail-price changes and signs of regional stock-outs.
- Oil marketing companies expand LPG bottling, cylinder inventory and inter-state transport contingency plans near high-demand urban and rural clusters.
- Reliance and other designated refiners prioritize LPG yield optimization, dedicated storage and offtake arrangements that can be activated during disruptions.
- Government agencies increase monitoring of LPG stocks, import dependency, refinery compliance and regional distribution readiness.
- Consumer-goods retailers and food-service operators reassess contingency fuel supplies and delivery economics in markets vulnerable to LPG disruptions.