The Numaligarh Refinery, located at

Morangi Morangi is a big rural area in Golaghat district of Assam situated at a distance of 12 km of Golaghat Golaghat ( ''Gʊlaɡʱat'' ) one of the largest subdivisions of the Indian state of Assam, later elevated to the position of a full–fledg ...

, Golaghat district,

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

in India. Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) is a Government of India Enterprise, it is a group company of Oil India Limited (earlier subsidiary of BPCL) and the present shareholding pattern of NRL is OIL-80.16%, Govt. of Assam (GoA)-15.47% and Engineers India Ltd (EIL) – 4.37%. NRL is a Category-I Mini Ratna PSU and it is one of 4 refineries in Assam. The other 3 refineries in Assam are owned by M/s IOCL. It opened in 1999. The commercial production commenced from 1st October, 2000. , it had a capacity of 3 million metric tonnes per year. In January 2019, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved plans to increase the refinery's capacity to 9 million metric tonnes per year.

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