Technip has been awarded three lump sum turnkey contracts for Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL), worth a total value of approximately €25 million, for the Phase III Expansion Project of its refinery located in Mangalore, west coast of India. This project will allow to increase this refinery’s crude refining capacity to 15 million tons/year.
The contracts cover the design, engineering, supply and installation of fired heaters in four major units of the MRPL refinery: the Crude Distillation, Vacuum Distillation, Delayed Coking and Petrochemical Fluid Catalytic Cracking units.
The contracts, which are scheduled to be completed in the first semester of 2011, will be executed by Technip’s operating center in New Delhi, India.
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