IOCL lets contract for Haldia refinery
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL) has let a contract to Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG)—a partnership of Chevron USA Inc. and McDermott International Inc.—to provide technology and engineering for a grassroots unit to be built at IOCL’s 164,100-b/d Haldia refinery in the district of Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India.
As part of the contract, CLG will deliver technology licensing and engineering for a 270,000-tonne/year lubricants base oil plant, which will be equipped with CLG’s proprietary Isodewaxing and Isofinishing technologies, McDermott said.
Intended to help meet projected growth in India’s base oil market and reduce the country’s dependence on imported oils, the Haldia unit will be mainly designed to produce premium API Group III base oils by processing unconverted oil from an upstream hydrocracking unit at the refinery, the service provider said.
While it did not disclose a timeframe for its work on the project, McDermott did value the contract—signed in this year’s second quarter—at $1-50 million.
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Robert Brelsford | Downstream Editor
Robert Brelsford joined Oil & Gas Journal in October 2013 as downstream technology editor after 8 years as a crude oil price and news reporter on spot crude transactions at the US Gulf Coast, West Coast, Canadian, and Latin American markets. He holds a BA (2000) in English from Rice University and an MS (2003) in education and social policy from Northwestern University.
