Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) was established as a Company on 22nd April 1993 in accordance with the provisions made in the historic Assam Accord signed on 15th August 1985. The 3 MMTPA Refinery was dedicated to the nation by the erstwhile Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri A. B. Vajpayee on 9th July, 1999. NRL has been able to display credible performance since commencement of commercial production in October, 2000. With its concern, commitment and contribution to socio-economic development of the state of Assam and North East India, it is considered as one of the glowing manifestations of successful business enterprise in the region and the Oil Industry of India, with its footprints across the globe where its products, specially Paraffin Wax continue to be exported. The company has embarked on a major Refinery Expansion drive to treble its capacity from 3 MMTPA to 9 MMTPA at an estimated investment of more than Rs. 28,000 Crore which also includes setting up of a Crude Oil Import Terminal at Pardeep Port in Odisha and laying a network of more than 1640 KM pipelines.

M/s Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) is a Government of India Enterprise operates a 3.0 MMTPA Refinery at Numaligarh in the District of Golaghat, Assam since the year 2000.NRL is now in the process of executing a major expansion project of capacity augmentation from present 3.0 MMTPA to 9.0 MMTPA. The required additional quantity of crude oil is planned to be imported through Paradip Port in Odisha. A cross country pipeline of around 1630 km shall be laid from Paradip Port to Numaligarh for transporting 8 MMTPA of imported crude oil. Additionally, one pipeline will be laid for transporting 6 MMTPA crude oil from IOCL refinery at Paradip to NRL’s Crude Oil Import Terminal (COIT) at Paradip. The pipeline shall be passing through 5 (five) States, namely, Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam covering a distance of around 1635km.