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Eastern Refinery Limited (ERL) A subsidiary of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) and the only petroleum refinery plant in Bangladesh. It is a public limited company incorporated under the companies act 1913. The project was initiated in 1963 by a group of Pakistani entrepreneurs. The refinery complex was installed on the bank of the karnafuli river at a cost of Tk 151.7 million. It went into operation in 1968. ERL owns and operates a crude distillation unit (34,000 BPSD), catalytic reforming unit (70,000 TPY), asphaltic Bitumen plant (vacuum distillation unit plus Bitument blowing unit, 70,000 TPY of Bitumen), visbreaking unit (522,000 TPY of RCO processing) and mild hydrocracking unit (57,000 TPY). This refinery has the capacity of refining 34,000 barrels of crude oil per day (i.e., 1.5 million m tons per year).