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Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals Limited (BRPL) was incorporated as Government of India Undertaking under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on 20th February 1974. The company became a subsidiary of IndianOil on 29th of March 2001 after disinvestments of share by Govt of India. With an investment of about Rs.8,000 million in the Refineries and Petrochemicals plants, BRPL has the unique distinction of being the first indigenous grass root Refinery in the country integrated with a Petrochemical complex at one location. The primary unit of the Refinery, Crude Distillation Unit (CDU-I), with an annual capacity to process 1.0 million tons of crude per annum (21,900 BPSD) was commissioned in February 1979. From there on it was a remarkable track record of commissioning and operating of the Kerosene Treating Unit (KTU), the Delayed Coking Unit (DCU-I) and the Coke Calcination Unit (CCU) in 1981, the Petrochemical complex comprising of Xylenes and Dimethyl Terephthalate (DMT) plants in 1985 and the Polyester Staple Fibre (PSF) plant in 1988. In 1986, the capacity of the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU-I) was enhanced to 1.35 MMTPA (29,600 BPSD) through debottlenecking.
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