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A crane positions a chamber used to separate crude-oil byproducts.
Make no little plans," the architect Daniel Burnham once said. When it comes to oil refining, that could certainly be the slogan of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries and India's richest man. In the late '90s, Reliance spent $6 billion and employed 75,000 workers to build a world-class oil refinery at Jamnagar, India, a seaside town in the northwest state of Gujarat, in just four years. "This is not merely a refinery," Ambani said at the time, "this is an inspiration."

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