Cals Refineries signs MoU with BPCL for petro product off-take
19 Jun 2009, Kolkata

Spice Energy Group company Cals Refineries and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), a Navaratna PSU, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for off-take of petroleum products from Cals.

BPCL in deal to lift Haldia output of Cals
18 Jun 2009, Kolkata

Bharat Petroleum Corporation will pick up petrol and diesel from Cals Refineries’ proposed 10-million-tonne refinery in Haldia. Cals plans to commission a 5-million-tonne refinery by July 2011 and another similar plant within a year.

Environmental nod for Cals Refineries
28 May 2009, Kolkata

Cals Refineries, a part of the Spice Energy Group of industries, has received environmental clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for its project in Haldia, West Bengal.

State delegates in team to Japan
19 Mar 2009, Kolkata

West Bengal has been invited by the Centre to be part of a delegation to Japan to attract investments for the three petrochemical, chemical and petroleum investment regions coming up in the country

Japan trip for Nayachar
19 Mar 2009, Calcutta

A state team will travel to Japan and South Korea to net investors for the Nayachar and Haldia chemical hub

Second Cals unit in Haldia
08 Feb 2009, Calcutta

Delhi-based Cals Refinery is planning to relocate one more refinery to Haldia from abroad

Cals Refineries has ambitious plans
11 Jul 2008, New Delhi

While there is a lot of buzz surrounding the 27 million tonnes refinery of RIL at Jamnagar, another company is quietly building a refinery almost as big as the RIL refinery. This is Spice Energy's venture at Haldia called Cals Refineries

BP in talks with Indian start-up to supply crude
25 Mar 2008, Mumbai

Oil major BP Plc (BP.L) is in talks with Indian start-up CALS Refineries Ltd (CALS.BO) to supply crude oil and buy petroleum products, officials at the two firms said on Tuesday.

BP to Spice up refinery
24 Mar 2008, New Delhi

BP will enter into a strategic agreement to supply crude oil to Spice Energy for the 5-million-tonne refinery at Haldia being set up by CALS Refineries.

Rs 4000-cr plant for Nayachar petro hub
20 Mar 2008, Kolkata

Cals Refinery on Wednesday signed an MoU with the state for a Rs 4,000-crore oil refinery plant.

CALS to set up refinery projects in West Bengal
20 Mar 2008, Kolkata

CALS Refinery, a BSE-listed company, proposes to invest Rs. 20,000 crore in three phases to set up refinery projects at Haldia and at the proposed Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) at Nayachar in West Bengal.

CALS signs MoU with WBIDC for Rs 20K cr project
20 Mar 2008, Kolkata

CALS Refineries — promoted by the Spice group with interests in aviation, construction and hospitality, apart from oil and gas — has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) and the Haldia Development Authority (HDA) for a Rs 20,000 crore refinery project in Haldia.

Cals to set up 3 refineries in Bengal at Rs 20k crore
19 Mar 2008, Kolkata

Cals Refineries, a Delhi-based company, has signed a land deal with two agencies of the West Bengal government for a Rs 20,000-crore plan for three refineries in the port town of Haldia and the Nayachar river island off Haldia, giving a fillip to the state’s plans for a chemical hub.

Cals in talks with BP for crude oil supply
11 Mar 2008, Mumbai

Spice Energy-promoted Cals Refineries is in talks with the world’s third largest energy company, BP, for a crude supply and product offtake deal.

BP and Spice to break up German refinery and move it to Calcutta
09 Mar 2008, UK

BP has entered talks with Spice Energy, the group of Indian investors behind a $1bn (£500m) plan to dismantle a refinery in Germany, pack it into containers and ship it to a site near the Indian city of Calcutta.

Anything to declare? Just a refinery - German oil plant to be dismantled, shipped to Haldia and rebuilt
04 Feb 2008, Calcutta

A fully functional oil refinery in Germany will be dismantled, packed into 3,000 containers, shipped thousands of miles to Haldia and put back together again.