The unit was to restart on November 26 after 8-week maintenance shutdown which caused shortage of domestic cooking gas in the country.
"The unit will be restarted next week as per schedule," he said on sidelines of the Indian Economic Summit in New Delhi but refused to elaborate.
Reliance had shut the 180,000-barrels-per-day gasoline or fluidised catalytic cracking unit on October 3 for a 49-day shutdown but had later extended it by five days on account of slippages in the repairs of the FCCU, which produces about one-third of India's domestic LPG.
The earlier scheduled date for restart was November 18. However, other units of the company's 33 million tonnes a year (660,000 barrels per day) Jamnagar refinery such as the 330,000-bpd crude distillation unit, a coker and aromatic division have been made successfully operational from November 10, ahead of schedule.
A government official said state-owned firms imported 238,000 tonnes of LPG to make up for the loss of production from Jamnagar refinery.
The LPG deficit of October-November is likely to be wiped out by mid-December. Besides imports, state firms are also dipping into inventories to tied over the situation.
The opening inventory of 333,000 tonnes is planned to be dipped to about 205,000 tonnes by December, thereby, giving an additional availability of about 128,000 tonnes.
"The LPG backlog is less than one per cent of the average monthly consumption at the macro level. At micro level, a few days backlog continues in certain markets on account of operational issues. We hope to wipe it out by middle of next month," the official said.
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