GAIL Pata Petrochemicals, Pata, Uttar Pradesh — India

GAIL Pata Petrochemicals, Pata, Uttar Pradesh is a petrochemical plant in India. Its listed capacity is 950,000 t of ethylene. Petrochemical plants crack hydrocarbons at very high temperatures to produce ethylene, propylene and other building-block chemicals — one of the most heat-intensive industrial processes. It is operated by GAIL Ltd. By capacity it ranks #1 among 5 petrochemical plants in India. It emits about 1,247,573 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.25% of the CO₂e from the 297 facilities in India that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-731939.

In context: how this facility compares

At 950,000 t of ethylene, GAIL Pata Petrochemicals, Pata, Uttar Pradesh is well above the median petrochemical plant in India (700,000 t of ethylene). Subsector: petrochemical-steam-cracking. As petrochemical plant, it requires high process heat (typically 300–800°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Petrochemical plants crack hydrocarbons at very high temperatures to produce ethylene, propylene and other building-block chemicals — one of the most heat-intensive industrial processes.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 1,247,573 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest petrochemical plants in India

Listed capacity (t of ethylene), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by GAIL Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

GAIL Pata Petrochemicals, Pata, Uttar Pradesh sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 26.6°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1243 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.96× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

The #1 largest of 5 petrochemical plants in India by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Panki Fertilizer Complex · Chemical Plant · 1,243,037 t CO₂
• Shahjahanpur Fertilizer Complex · Chemical Plant · 2,148,182 t CO₂
• Airofil Papers Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill
• Bareilly Fertilizer Complex · Chemical Plant · 4,510,661 t CO₂
• IOCL Mathura Refinery · Refinery · 2,318,366 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 26.64239, 79.48768. View on OpenStreetMap.

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