Numaligarh (Assam), February 24 The cost of the three-fold capacity expansion of Numaligarh Refinery Ltd, the largest refinery in the Northeast, is likely to increase by nearly Rs 5,900 crore to around Rs 34,000 crore, company officials said.
The company has sent a proposal to the government to increase the budget from the existing Rs 28,026 crore to Rs 33,901 crore for the Numaligarh Refinery Expansion Project (NREP), a brownfield initiative, and it is currently under "active consideration" by the Public Investment Board (PIB), they said.
The capacity expansion project of the refinery, located in Numaligarh in Assam's Golaghat district, from 3 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) to 9 MMTPA, is expected to be completed by December 2026.
"Work on the expansion project is progressing at full speed. We can say that around 85 per cent of the overall work has been completed, and we have spent an estimated Rs 27,601 crore so far," a senior NRL official told