Assam based Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum (BPCL), has commissioned its Naphtha Splitter Unit which has been set up in order to facilitate supply of petrochemical grade Naphtha to Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd (BCPL), also known as Assam Gas Cracker Project, at Lepetkata near Dibrugarh in Upper Assam.
The Unit was formally inaugurated. Executed at a project cost of Rs 87 crore, the Naphtha Splitter Project funded entirely from internal sources will supply 160,000 mt of petrochemical grade naphtha annually which would be utilised as feed stock in BCPL's plant. The Unit will convert the Naphtha generated in the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) and Hydrocracker Unit (HCU) of the Refinery and convert it into paraffin rich Naphtha, suitable to be used as feedstock in Naphtha Cracker unit of the Gas Cracker Project.
The Gas Cracker Project is nearing its completion and is expected to be commissioned next year. Time-overruns due to various reasons had escalated the cost of the project to Rs 8,920 crores. The original cost of the project, was Rs 5,460 crores.
19-Nov-13 
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