Engineers India wins $139-million contact in Nigeria

State-owned firm Engineers India Ltd (EIL) has won a contract for a 400,000-barrels-per-day refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in Nigeria.

Nigeria's Dangote Group has awarded the company the contract for implementing a grass-root 400,000-bpd (20 million tonnes) oil refinery and 600,000-tonnes polypropylene plant, the company said in a statement on Sunday.

The contract is worth $139 million, "the largest ever single consultancy assignment for EIL", it added.

The main facilities of the project comprise of crude distillation unit, single train residue fluid catalytic cracking unit, diesel hydrotreating unit, CCR unit, alkylation unit, poly-propylene unit etc, utilities and off-sites including captive power with other enabling infrastructure facilities.

The crude and product handing facilities through single point mooring (SPM) would also be integrated with the refinery, the statement said.

EIL is an engineering, procurement, construction and total solutions consultancy organisation in the fields of petroleum refining, petrochemicals, pipelines, oil & gas terminals and storages, fertilisers, mining & metallurgy, and infrastructure projects.

The company is also working in diversified areas of water was waste management. It has also made inroads into the areas of nuclear, solar and thermal power.

EIL has successfully expanded its operations internationally, and has provided a wide range of engineering consultancy services on various international projects, including in the Middle East, North Africa and South East Asia.