L&T has bagged a Rs.580.96-crore Lump-Sum Turn-Key (LSTK) order from Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for its Refinery Expansion Project at Panipat. This order is for the Diesel Hydrotreater (DHDT) and Hydrogen Package and has been awarded to L&T against international competition.

IOCL is enhancing the refinery capacity by 6 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) and has entrusted this challenging task to L&T. IOCL had pre-qualified EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) contractors of international repute for execution of critical packages of this project on an LSTK basis and L&T was the only qualified Indian Company.

This LSTK contract consists of a 3.5 mtpa-DHDT unit based on technology from IFP, France and a 140,000 tpa (194,600 NM3/hr) hydrogen plant based on technology from Haldor Topsoe, Denmark. This is the largest DHDT and hydrogen plant being built by IOCL at its Panipat refinery.

L&T has been entrusted with the total responsibility including residual process design, detailed engineering, procurement, supply, fabrication, construction, installation, commissioning and performance-testing for this project.

Since the entire project has to be executed in a fast track of 24 months, L&T is adopting innovative concepts during all stages of the project execution and these include state-of-the-art IT-enabled systems comprising 3-D Computer-Aided Design, Advanced Engineering and Simulation software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), scheduling, e-Procurement, on-line construction material planning systems and electronic communication facilities.