New Delhi: Engineers India Limited (EIL) and Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) have inked a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to jointly develop technology for 'Production of aqueous Ammonia from Ammonia rich sour gases' and demonstrate at NRL site.

The collaboration agreement was executed on December 29 by authorised representatives of EIL and NRL in New Delhi in presence of EIL's CMD Vartika Shukla, NRL's Chairman & Oil India Limited's (OIL) CMD Dr Ranjit Rath and NRL's MD Bhaskar Jyoti Phukan.

This MoA shall pave the way for demonstration of technologies jointly developed by EIL and NRL. This endeavour will generate a win-win scenario for both EIL, with a rich experience in the knowhow in development, design & engineering, and NRL, having vast experience in the operation of SRU towards commercialisation of indigenous technologies. The development of technology for production of Ammonia from the sour gases shall be addressing the issues related to processing of ammonia in SRU besides generating value from the waste stream.

Commenting on this development Shukla said "This collaborative arrangement with NRL is one of major steps taken by the company for indigenous technology development and deployment leading to Atmanirbharta in the energy sector providing impetus to EIL's diversified portfolio of supplying technological and proprietary engineered items/ products."

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