Numaligarh Refinery Limited, CSIR-NEIST execute Memorandum of Agreement to collaborate in research activities
Numaligarh Refinery Limited’s 10 year vision plan entailing a move to broader energy plays, NRL inked a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with North East Institute of Science and Technology, (NEIST) Jorhat.
NEIST Assam, is a constituent unit of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
As per the MoA, a Research & Development centre, to be called “NRL-NEIST R&D Centre” or “NRDC” will be set up at the premise of NEIST, Jorhat for taking up various research activities in emerging energy sectors for a long-term basis, with a collaborative effort of NRL and NEIST. NRL will support the R&D centre with financial contribution to the research projects.
The objectives of the collaboration would be to create state-of-art R&D, analytical and testing platform for the petroleum industry in order to develop sustainable solutions to the complex energy and environmental issues faced by oil and petroleum industry through continuous and collaborative R&D and explore new frontiers in technology for tapping unconventional reserves of energy. It would also develop facilities for specialized testing of hydrocarbon, speciality chemicals, water samples etc as well as specialized testing for civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and metallurgy.
The MoA was signed on behalf of NRL, by Nikunja Borthakur, Senior Chief General Manager (Corporate Affairs), and Dr G. Narahari Sastry, Director, CSIR-NEIST in the presence of Bhaskar Jyoti Phukan, Managing Director, NRL.
NRL is increasing its capacity from 3 to 9 MMTPA (million metric tonnes per annum) with an investment of Rs 28,000 Crore. For the first time since its inception, the Refinery was able to achieve capacity utilization of more than 100%, processing 3,091 (Thousand
