With wind speeds of over 220 kms per hour hitting the area, the cyclone destroyed the entire temporary structure of the refinery, besides bending few massive oil tanks. It also uprooted the entire communication and power supply of the Rs 22,000 crore project site. "We are assessing the damages and, according to an preliminary estimate, we have lost equipment worth Rs 150 crore," officials said. As the project has been fully insured with New India, the company is expecting no monetary loss to itself. Officials said the disaster relief team managed to restore radio communications within four hours, and brought water and food supplies from Jamnager and other cities.Flights were arranged by the company from Mumbai to supply food, medicines, and other reliefs.

Apart from the refinery, RIL is setting up an 3 mmtpa petrochemicals units, 423 mw captive power plant and India's largest port in its 7,500 acre complex in Jamnagar. While Gujarat is struggling with scores of problems, RIL helped the localgovernment to restore normalcy in the Jamnagar city.

As this correspondent witnessed, not a single power or telephone poles was spared by the cyclone. The company set up coordination and control rooms at its headquarters in Mumbai which helped to procure emergency equipment and rushing them to site. Thanks to the pre-emtive work on the damage control, many lives were saved by shifting the population to the nearby housing colonies. More than 50,000 workers are now back in site and work has been restarted by the company to commission the project on schedule.