Numaligarh refinery commissions naphtha splitter unit

Numaligarh Refinery commissioned its Naphtha Splitter Unit which has been set up in order to facilitate supply of petrochemical grade Naphtha to the prestigious Assam Gas Cracker Project being implemented by M/s Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd. (BCPL) at Lepetkata near Dibrugarh in Assam. The Unit was formally inaugurated by MD NRL Mr. Dipak Chakravarty on 18-11-13 in presence Director (Finance) NRL Mr. S. K Barua and seniors officials and staff of NRL.

Executed at a project cost of Rs. 87 crores, the Naphtha Splitter Project funded entirely from internal sources will supply 160 Thousand Metric Tonnes(TMT) of petrochemical grade Naphtha annually which would be utilised as feed stock in M/s BCPL’s plant. The Unit will convert the Naphtha generated in the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) and Hydrocracker Unit(HCU) of the Refinery and convert it into paraffin rich Naphtha, suitable to be used as feedstock in Naphtha Cracker unit of the Gas Cracker Project.

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