page_title: Essar Energy
section_title: Petroleum
hierarchical_section_title: Essar Energy / Operations / Petroleum
caption_attribution_description: English: A petrol filling station belonging to Essar Petroleum
context_page_description: Essar Energy Plc is an Indian-focused energy company with assets in the existing power and oil and gas businesses. Headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius and subsidiary of Essar Group, the firm has interests in both the power generation and petroleum industries. In May 2014 the company was acquired by its majority shareholder.
context_section_description: The firm's oil and gas operations are carried out through its 86%-owned subsidiary Essar Oil Limited, which is listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange.
  Essar Oil owns and operates Essar Refinery a petroleum refinery at Vadinar in Jamnagar district, Gujarat, It is India's second largest refinery, which has a capacity of 18 million metric tons per annum.
  Essar Oil holds both onshore and offshore petroleum exploration and production rights within India, as well as rights to a coalbed methane block. The firm also holds exploration and production interests in Nigeria, Vietnam, Australia, Indonesia, and Madagascar. Its total reserves amount to 2 Mbbl (320,000 m³) equivalent of 2P (proved plus probable) resources, 148 Mbbl (23,500,000 m³) equivalent in contingent resources and 1,012 Mbbl (160,900,000 m³) equivalent in prospective resources. In June 2012 Essar energy received the final forest approval for developing a coal mine in Indonesia.
caption: A petrol filling station belonging to Essar Petroleum in Khammam, Telangana, India
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