Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in Jamnagar and other facilities now produces over 1,000 MT of medical grade liquid oxygen per day — or over 11% of India’s total production – meeting the needs of nearly every one in ten patients.

Starting from nil before the pandemic, Reliance Industries has now become India’s largest producer of this life-saving resource from a single location.

Under the personal supervision of Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, at Jamnagar, Reliance has adopted a two-pronged approach to strengthen the availability of medical oxygen in India - Refocusing several industrial processes at Reliance’s Jamnagar and other facilities for rapid scale-up in production of medical grade liquid oxygen and Augmenting loading and transportation capacities to ensure its swift and safe supply to states and union territories across India.

This oxygen is being provided free-of-cost to several state governments across the country to bring immediate relief to over 1 lakh patients on a daily basis. Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, Reliance has supplied over 55,000 MT of medical grade liquid oxygen across the country.

Reliance organised the airlifting of 24 ISO containers into India from Saudi Arabia, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Thailand adding 500 MT of new transportation capacity for liquid oxygen thanks to Aramco, BP and IAF. These ISO containers will help in removing the transport constraints for medical grade liquid oxygen in the country. In addition, Reliance is airfreighting more ISO containers over the next few days.

Commenting on these initiatives, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited said, "I am proud of our engineers at Jamnagar who have worked tirelessly, with a great sense of patriotic urgency, to meet this new challenge. I am truly humbled by the determination and sense of purpose shown by the bright, young members of the Reliance family who have once again risen to the occasion and delivered when India needs it the most.”

Nita Ambani, Founder-Chairperson, Reliance Foundation said, "Our plants at our Jamnagar refinery have been repurposed overnight to produce medical grade liquid oxygen that is being distributed across India. Our thoughts and prayers are with our fellow countrymen and women. Together, we will overcome these difficult times.”