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Bongaigaon R   e f inery , T echnology with Ecology a t Heart
                                                                                      Bongaigaon Refinery, Technology with Ecology at Heart





 Giant Strides & Refinery Today   Over the years, Bongaigaon Renery has experienced steady
            growth. The Crude Distillation Unit (CDU-1) had its capacity                                   Unique Asset
 Big Steps, Bigger Impact
            increased to 1.35 million metric tonnes from the original 1.00
            million metric tonnes through debottlenecking in the year 1986-            The INDMAX unit was commissioned in October 2020 to
 Bongaigaon Renery was established with an initial investment of INR 460 crore. Its main goals were to   87. Currently, the crude oil processing capacity of Bongaigaon   upgrade Naphtha and Black Oil to Motor Spirit and LPG.
 rene Assam Crude Oil and manufacture petrochemicals as downstream products. Initially, Oil India Ltd   Renery is 2.7 MMTPA, with plans to increase it to 5.0 MMTPA as   INDMAX,  an  in-house  technology  developed  by
 and Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) supplied crude oil to the renery from the oil elds in upper   per the North-East Hydrocarbon-2030 Vision Document to meet   IndianOil  R&D,  enhances  renery  prot  margins  by
 Assam through pipelines. The crude tanks, which received the crude oil, were commissioned in 1979. The   the  region's  rising  energy  demands.  To  achieve  better   achieving  high  yields  of  LPG,  light  olens,  and  high-
 Captive Power Plant was commissioned on January 14, 1979. The primary unit was the Crude Distillation   performance, the instrument system of the renery unit has been   octane MS from residual petroleum hydrocarbon streams
 Unit, which began operating in February 1979 with an annual capacity to process 1.0 million metric   modernized in a phased manner. The new renery units have   and fractions. Post-commissioning of the INDMAX Unit,
 tonnes. Subsequent commissioning included the Kerosene Treating Unit (KTU), the Delayed Coking Unit   been  equipped  with  Distributed  Digital  Control  System  of   the renery is equipped to meet an additional 55% of the
 (DCU), and the Coke Calcination Unit (CCU), as well as the petrochemicals complex.  Instrumentation.  region’s LPG demand.



















































 Bongaigaon Renery seen with a woman engineer on duty








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