The 130-kilometre-long Indo-Bangla Friendship Pipeline is among the Rs. 949 crore investment plans of Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) in the current financial year.
The public sector undertaking company has embarked on major projects such as Refinery expansion project from current 3 MMTPA to 9 MMTPA which includes laying of 2,200 KM of crude oil pipeline from Paradip port, Odisha to Numaligarh in Assam and product pipeline from Numaligarh to Siliguri in West Bengal and associated facilities like crude oil import terminal at Paradip port.
The 130-kms-long trans-national Indo-Bangla Friendship Pipeline is being laid from its marketing terminal at Siliguri in West Bengal to Parbatipur in Bangladesh.