Numaligarh Refinery Limited received its first consignment of imported Miri Crude Oil from PETRONAS
Guwahati: Assam based Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) on Sunday received its first consignment of imported Miri Crude Oil from PETRONAS, Malaysia.
A railway rake comprising of 50 Tank Wagons and carrying around 2,760 Metric Tonnes of Crude Oil reached Numaligarh from Haldia port, West Bengal from where it was dispatched. Miri Crude Oil is low in sulphur and is close in specifications to Assam Crude Oil, also known as Sweet Crude for its low sulphur content, which the refinery is currently processing from the Oil fields of Upper Assam.
NRL stated that this is for the first time that Crude Oil is being imported by NRL to be processed in the Refinery. This would help NRL attain better capacity utilization of its existing refining capacity of 3 MMTPA (million metric tonnes per annum); which has till now been constrained due to non-availability of adequate domestic Crude Oil.
