Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), a public sector undertaking under the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, has recently initiated a tender process for establishing a 10,000-tonne per year green hydrogen generation unit at its facility in Numaligarh, Golaghat district in the Indian state of Assam.  

As per the official bidding notification, NRL calls for project developer and operator for installation of a green hydrogen production unit with an installed capacity of 10,000 MT per annum on Build, Own, Operate (BOO) basis to meet the requirement of Gaseous Green Hydrogen (GGH) at the refinery for a period of 25 years.

The deadline for the submission of the bidding application is determined as 13th September, 2024. It is mandatory for every bidder to have a minimum of $23 million in average annual turnover in one of the three previous financial years.

Evaluation criteria for the bidding process will be based on rate per kilogram (kg) of GGH quoted by the bidder at the delivery point for the procurement of the green hydrogen