Construction of IndianOil’s Technology Development and Deployment Centre (TDDC) in Faridabad, Haryana, continues to advance toward its scheduled completion in July 2027, with the project remaining in the Notice to Proceed/under implementation phase as of the latest update in June-July 2026.

The approximately US$402 million (₹2,280 crore) next-generation research campus is being developed adjacent to IndianOil’s existing R&D centre. It is designed to become one of the world’s largest net-zero energy and water-neutral energy research complexes. Once operational, the 60-acre facility will significantly expand IndianOil’s research capabilities in hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture, batteries, nanotechnology and synthetic biology. It will also support research on advanced refining technologies and pilot-scale commercialization. This is aimed at supporting India’s energy transition and self-reliance objectives while serving as a national centre for technology development and deployment. It is also concurrent to other energy security plans in India including the expansion of national oil reserves.

Construction of IndianOil’s technology development and deployment centre in Faridabad, India begins

Reported July 3, 2020 – Construction of IndianOil‘s state-of-the-art Technology Development & Deployment Centre begins. This is its second R&D Campus at IMT, Sector-67 in Faridabad,

The new campus, coming up on a 60-acre plot at a cost of approx. Rs. 2200 crores would focus on demonstration & deployment of a wide range of technologies developed by IndianOil R&D and will work in tandem with the existing campus at Sector-13, Faridabad.

With its detailed project report prepared by a consortium of internationally renowned architects and science planners, the new R&D Campus will house four Centres of Excellence, in Alternative & Renewable Energy, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Corrosion Research.

The R&D Centre is designed to achieve the highest sustainability rating of LEED Platinum certification and has been designed to be a net-zero campus in terms of energy and water use; its power (9MW) and water needs will be met through on-campus solar energy and water-harvesting systems.

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Project overview

The new campus will be an extension of IndianOil’s R&D Centre, set up at Faridabad in 1972 to establish domestic capabilities in producing a wide range of lubricating oils. Since then, the Centre has developed over 4,500 formulations, and IndianOil today markets over 800 grades of OEM-approved lubricants and greases to suit virtually every application across all sectors.

The R&D Centre has over the years blossomed into a state-of-the-art institution for downstream petroleum R&D, focussing on indigenous technologies and processes to suit Indian conditions. The Centre has many achievements to its credit in the ‘Make in India’ spirit, having recently crossed the milestone of 1,000 patents and today stands at 1164 nos. While many refinery process technologies and catalysts developed by the Centre have been adopted by various IndianOil and non-IndianOil refineries in the country, its IndMax technology was recently licenced to NIS, Serbia – a group refinery of M/s. Gazprom Neft, Russia.