Project company Numaligarh Refinery, a subsidiary of the Indian oil company Bharat Petroleum, has received clearance from the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs of India for development of the 120,500 bbl/d expansion project at the Numaligarh refinery in the Golaghat district of Assam (northeastern India). Once built, the RUP225.9bn (US$3.2bn) project will triple the crude oil processing capacity of the Numaligarh refinery, from 60,250 bbl/d to a total of 180,750 bbl/d.
The project is slated to take 48 months to complete from the start of construction and will also entail the construction of a 1,400 km long crude oil pipeline with a capacity of 180,750 bbl/d which will span from Paradip to Numaligarh along with a 654 km products pipeline with a capacity of 120,500 bbl/d, which will run between the cities of Numaligarh and Siliguri.
The refinery's owners are BPCL (61.65%), Oil India (26%) and the government of Assam (12.35%). The development of the project aims at meeting the growing demand of petroleum products in northeastern India and enable the export of oil products to Myanmar, Bhutan, and Bangladesh.
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