Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly’… these words of Dhirubhai Ambani not only stand testimony to the massive growth of Reliance industries but also motivates every human being to strive harder.
We at the Valves Business Group of L&T really strived hard and today enjoy a wonderful relationship with Reliance.
Reliance Industries is India’s largest private sector company. They operate the third largest refinery in the world at any single location, with a capacity of 30 million tons per year or 0.6 million barrels per day of crude throughput, at Jamnagar, Gujarat.
Reliance Petroleum Limited has set up a Greenfield petroleum refinery and polypropylene plant in a Special Economic Zone in Jamnagar in the state of Gujarat in western India. This refinery and polypropylene plant has been set up adjacent to the existing refinery and petrochemical complex of Reliance Industries Limited.
Today, the whole world is aware of this massive Reliance Jamnagar Export Refinery project. Mass media has brought to light the supplies made by L&T for this Greenfiled project. And now, as we near completion, here’s how the whole story began…
It was a big challenge to bid for this huge expansion project that is one of its kind. Needless to say about Reliance Refinery, which spreads over 8400 acres with eight companies.
Before we get into the real story, here is a brief on the Jamnagar refinery, a place where our engineers have spent several days and nights together. The Jamnagar refinery is considered the World’s largest single location refinery complex, with a capacity to process almost 2 percent of the world’s crude oil. Handling a team of 7500 people working from several interconnected locations across the world, JERP has finally started its process now.
According to sources, when the new 580,000 barrel-a-day refinery project is completed, the total capacity for the RIL-RPL Jamnagar site will be more than 1.2 million barrels per day.
Engineering, construction and project management company Bechtel Corporation, UK is using Bentley’s Project wise system in building JERP. According to sources, the Bechtel team that was roped in to designing the project had approx 300 Engineers working for this project.
Offering a customized solution to meet the requirements of any project is what distinguishes a valve manufacturer from the rest. And we are extremely proud to have supplied flow control products for this project, which provides significant benefits to the Indian economy from its Special Economic Zones.
To begin with, we acquired majority share of the valves required for this project with the quantity close to one lakh valves.
We are eager to share this success story of how we progressed step by step in completing this order. More, in the next issue!
