Guwahati: State owned Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), has achieved a new milestone by recording the highest-ever crude throughput of 3.093 million metric tonnes (MMT) in the financial year 2022-23, surpassing its nameplate capacity of 3.0 MMT.

Additionally, the company has achieved a distillate yield of 87.6%, which is the highest since its inception. NRL has accomplished this feat while keeping its capital expenditure at ₹6,615 Crore, the highest ever till date.

Major refinery products, such as MS, HSD, and wax, have shown the highest-ever production figures at 662.4 MT, 2,134.8 MT, and 47.7 MT, respectively. LPG bottling has also reached a record high at 65.9 TMT.

Another highlight of the financial year has been the successful commissioning and inauguration of the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline by the Prime Ministers of India and Bangladesh on March 18, 2023.

The 1 MMTPA, 132 KM pipeline has been built to transport HSD from NRL’s Siliguri Marketing Terminal in West Bengal to Parbatipur in Bangladesh.

NRL is currently on a major capacity expansion drive to increase its capacity from 3 MMTPA to 9 MMTPA, which includes putting up a Crude Oil Import Terminal in Paradip Port, Odisha, and laying a 1,640 KM Crude Oil Pipeline from Paradip to Numaligarh.

NRL is also implementing the first-of-its-kind Bio Refinery with bamboo biomass as feedstock at Numaligarh through a JV Company with Finnish collaborators. The Bio Refinery, expected to be commissioned by the end of 2023, would produce 49,000 tonnes of ethanol and other chemicals, contributing to the nation’s objective of achieving 20% ethanol blending in petrol by 2025.

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