In Jamnagar, on India's western coast, stands a refining and petrochemical complex that changed India's position in the global energy market. Reliance Industries built the first Jamnagar refinery in the 1990s at a scale many considered unnecessarily ambitious, and it was India's first major private sector refinery. Reliance says the complex was commissioned in approximately 30 months, and a second export oriented refinery was subsequently constructed beside it, taking the combined complex to roughly 1.4 million barrels per day. The Jamnagar journey was not financed by one heroic cheque from the Ambani family, as promoter capital was important but combined with other sources.
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