Mumbai: Engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro (LT) today announced winning of a Rs 576 crore order from Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) for a 200,000 tonnes per annum Lube Oil Base Stock (LOBS) Plant consisting of Raffinate Hydrotreating Unit (RHT), Mobil Selective Dewaxing Unit (MSDW) Hydro Finishing Unit (HF) project.

The scope of work for the prestigious order, included residual process design, detailed engineering, procurement, supply, transportation, storage, fabrication, inspection, construction, installation, testing, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning and performance guarantee test runs for the Project.

This would enable HPCL to produce high quality Group II III Lube Oils, which are higher value-added petroleum products.

HPCL, which operated one of its biggest refineries located at Mahul, here, intends to set up this LOBS Plant as a part of its quality upgradation project and have awarded the order on lumpsum turnkey basis to LT.

Jacobs Engineering India Pvt Ltd had been retained by HPCL to provide services for Project Management Consultancy (PMC) and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering (USA) is the process licensor.

The order was bagged by LT s EC Division's Refinery Projects Business Unit against keen competition on the strength of its track record of having executed several high operating pressure of refinery projects, meeting exact refinery quality requirements and conforming to stringent delivery schedules.

Source : UNI