NUMALIGARH REFINERY

Sept. 20, 2022

The Numaligarh Refinery Limited has planned to invest over 35 thousand crore rupees in the next five years. This amount will be invested in completing five ongoing projects including India- Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline.

About:

  • The Numaligarh Refinery is located at Morangi, Golaghat district, Assam.
  • Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) is a Category-I Mini Ratna PSU of Government of India.
  • It is a group company of Oil India Limited (earlier subsidiary of BPCL) and the present shareholding pattern of NRL is OIL-80.16%, Govt. of Assam (GoA)-15.47% and Engineers India Ltd (EIL) – 4.37%.
  • In 2019, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved plans to increase the refinery's capacity to 9 million metric tonnes per year. 

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