to 1,000 tonnes.While Tata Steel is supplying around 300 tonnes of oxygen per day, the Tata group on Tuesday announced it would import 24 cryogenic containers to transport liquid oxygen.State-owned Indian Oil Corp.
Ltd (150 tonnes) and Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (100 tonnes a day), too, have started diverting oxygen produced at their refineries.
JSW Group is supplying 610 tonnes of medical oxygen every day.Oxygen is consumed by industry in two ways—onsite and merchant sales.
Onsite is through captive plants for process-driven industries, which account for 75-80% of oxygen manufactured in India.The rest is supplied through merchant sales (called liquid oxygen) through cryogenic tanks and cylinders.