Bongaigaon Refinery
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| Country | India |
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| Coordinates | 26°30′57″N 90°31′54″E / 26.51583°N 90.53167°ECoordinates: 26°30′57″N 90°31′54″E / 26.51583°N 90.53167°E |
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| Operator | Indian Oil Corporation Limited |
Bongaigaon Refinery is an oil refinery and petrochemical complex located at Bongaigaon in Assam. It was announced in 1969 and construction began in 1972.
On 5 December 1969, the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi announced in the Lok Sabha the Government's decision to set up a new Refinery-cum-Petrochemical complex in Assam. The foundation stone of the complex was laid on 19 January 1972 at Bongaigaon. Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (BRPL) was incorporated as Government of India Undertaking under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on 20 February 1974. The company became a subsidiary of IndianOil (IOC) on 29 March 2001 after disinvestments of share by Govt of India.
BRPL has the distinction of being the first indigenous grass root Refinery in the country integrated with a Petrochemical complex at one location.
At present, the Refinery is processing crude available from the oil fields of ONGC and OIL located in the North-East India and Ravva crude oil from the Krishna Godavari basin off the coast of Andhra Pradesh.
The capacity of the Refinery was augmented in 1995 to 2.35 MMTPA (51,400 BPSD) through expansion of the Refinery consisting of one Crude Distillation Unit (CDU-II) and one Delayed Coking Unit (DCU-II). A LPG bottling plant of capacity 22000 MTPA was added to the complex and commissioned on March 2003.
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