India-based Oil & Natural Gas Corp’s (ONGC) Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals (MRPL) plans to borrow $2.1bn to expand its refinery and build a petrochemical plant.

ONGC’s finance director DK Sarraf said that the MRPL hopes to raise $859m of foreign currency denominated debt, $1bn from ONGC and $215m from the government’s Oil Industries Development Board.

Discover B2B Marketing That Performs

Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms.

Find out more

MRPL is spending $2.7bn to expand annual crude oil processing capacity to 15 million tonnes from 9.69 million tonnes.

The company also plans to build a $386m polypropylene unit with an annual capacity of 440,000t.