India's Numaligarh Refinery Limited expands capacity to 9 MMTPA

Part of the Government of India’s Hydrocarbon Vision 2030 initiative to help meet growing demand of petroleum products in northeastern India, NRL’s refinery expansion will increase overall crude oil processing capacity and it is scheduled to be completed by 2025. Environmental Clearance was obtained for the project on 27th July 2020. Approved budget for the project is Rs. 28,026 Cr. Revised cost estimate of Rs. 33,901 Cr. is under approval and being reviewed at MoP&NG.

The project implementation activity was started after obtaining Environmental Clearance on 27th July 2020. Contract for all major Project Management Consultancy has been awarded. M/s Technip Chennai was appointed as Managing PMC for the Refinery Project. Additionally, M/s ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions and M/s Technip Delhi are appointed as EPCM consultants. Licensors for the main units have been appointed and work for BEDP progressing as per schedule.

Subsequently, all studies, clearances, scrap removal & pre-project activities had been taken up and are currently under progress. The award of main plant EPC contracts are lined up for awarding. Procurement of other long lead items commenced in FY’21.

With the support of stakeholders and project implementation partners NRL is taking forward the project as per the set time-lines by the Government of India. Project is progressing as per set timelines. The commissioning of the new refinery is anticipated to commence from December 2025 starting with crude distillation unit and progressively commissioning the remaining process unit within next year during FY 2026-27.

The crude pipeline is planned to be routed through five states; Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. CTE approval for COIT has been received on 27 Jan 2021. EAC recommendation (MoEF) for CRZ approval has been obtained on 19 May 2021. M/s Engineers India Ltd. has been appointed as PMC for the Pipeline project and Crude Oil Terminal is being constructed based on BOOT basis.

To leverage synergy with existing pipeline projects within the region, the RoU sharing agreement has been firmed up with GAIL (Purnia to Baihata); similar agreement is being explored with IGGL (Baihata to Numaligarh). With respect to the product pipeline MoU has been reached with OIL to augment their existing Numaligarh Siliguri Pipeline.

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ALCHEMPro News Desk (JP)