Guwahati: Assam’s Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) will soon sell motor spirit and high speed diesel to Nepal, an official said Wednesday.
The NRL, which commenced commercial production in October 2000, recently signed an agreement with Nepal’s Birat Petroleum Private Limited (BPPL) for selling motor spirit and high speed diesel.
The governments of Nepal and India have already given NRL permission to enter the Nepal market.
NRL officials said the company is expected to sell around 100 kl of motor spirit and 5,000 kl of high speed diesel per month to BPPL.
“The actual sale is expected to start in the first quarter of the 2014-15 financial year after BPPL obtains necessary clearance from the government of Nepal,” said an NRL spokesman.
The total demand of petroleum products in Nepal is around one million tonnes a year.