Guwahati Refinery

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Guwahati Refinery is an oil refinery near Guwahati, India owned by the Indian Oil Corporation

It was the first in the public sector[citation needed] and was set up in collaboration with Romania at a cost of Rs.17.29 crores and commissioned on 1 January 1962 with a design capacity of 0.75 MMTPA. The present capacity of this Refinery is 1.00 MMTPA.

A hdrotreater unit for improving the quality of diesel has been installed and was commissioned in 2002. The refinery has also installed in 2003 Indmax Unit, a novel technology developed by its R&D Centre for upgrading heavy ends LPG, motor spirit and diesel oil.