Numaligarh Refinery Limited enhances its operations post Unlock-1

NUMALIGARH: Operations in Numaligarh Refinery Limited has come back to the normal level since last 2 weeks with the primary process units running at 90% to 95 % throughput. The company is aggressively implementing all necessary protocol on social distancing, frequent hand washing and sanitizing and compulsory using of masks in all its locations.

During the entire period of lockdown, the refinery had been functioning round-the-clock sustaining optimal operations with bare minimum employees and contract workers. Although, the impact of lockdown was felt in the month of March and April with the refinery operating at about 60% capacity, there was minimum impact on sales volumes, which picked up further the month of May.

"Compared to last year our sales drop during May 2020, was only to the extent of 7% in diesel & 13% in petrol primarily because of lower impact of COVID-19 in our geographical market. We could also start our construction activities in all our project sites as we did not have much migrant labours. Today around 1000 workers from the neighbourhood are working at our project sites in different locations," said Managing Director, NRL S. K. Barua.

The refinery had enhanced LPG yield and bottling during the lockdown to ensure that people are not inconvenienced due to shortage of cooking gas. NRL's LPG Bottling Plant is operating in two shifts and is also bottling imported LPG brought in by BPCL through Haldia by road for sales in northeast, stated a press release.

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