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Numaligarh Refinery to import crude oil via Paradip port

The imports are meant for catering to NRL's capacity expansion

Oil, petrol
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A worker walks atop a tanker wagon to check the freight level at an oil terminal on the outskirts of Kolkata. <b>Photo: Reuters</b>

Jayajit Dash Bhubaneswar
Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Paradip Port Trust (PPT) and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) for imports of crude oil through the major port.

The crude oil imports are meant for catering to NRL’s capacity expansion wherein it is augmenting capacity of its refinery at Numaligarh (Assam) to nine million tonne per annum, from three mtpa now.

Under NRL’s proposed refinery expansion project, a 28-inch diameter, 1400-km crude oil pipeline of one mtpa capacity will be laid for transporting six mtpa of imported crude oil from Paradip Port in Odisha to Numaligarh in Assam. The

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