New Delhi: L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of engineering giant Larsen & Toubro, announced it has won an onshore Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract from HPCL-Mittal Energy, a joint venture between Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Mittal Energy Investment.Under the contract, LTHE would set up seven cracker furnaces at the Bathinda refinery in Punjab. The order for setting up the furnaces of 1,200 kilo-tonne per annum (KTPA) dual-feed cracker unit is part of HPCL-Mittal Energy's Guru Gobind Singh Polymer Addition project.
The firm said that the scope of work under the contract covers project management, residual engineering, procurement and supply of cracker furnace systems, components, auxiliaries, fabrication in modules, erection, construction and commissioning.
LTHE plans to use its modular fabrication facilities in Hazira, Gujarat for fabrication of furnace modules.
The process licensor for the cracker unit was McDermott, an American multinational EPC and installation company, the company in a statement.