Some 50,000 MT of Modules to be Shipped from India Over 32-Month Period
L&T Energy Hydrocarbon, a division of Indian multinational Larsen & Toubro, has won a “significant” order to build and supply process and pipe rack modules for a 2.3-million-ton urea fertilizer plant in Western Australia.
Some 50,000 metric tons of modules will be delivered over a 32-month period, L&T said.
The modules will be manufactured at L&T’s export-oriented Kattupalli facility at Tamil Nadu on India’s east coast and shipped in a fully tested, pre-commissioned and ready-to-install condition to the project site in Australia.
The contract was awarded by joint venture Saipem & Clough against “stiff competition”, L&T said. The JV itself signed the engineering, procurement and construction contract with developer Perdaman Industries in 2020.
The facility on the Burrup Peninsula some 20 kilometers north of Karratha is being billed as the largest urea plant in Australia and one of the largest in the world.
In a separate contract, L&T Heavy Engineering secured multiple orders to supply the same project with urea equipment including reactors, carbamate separators, carbamate condensers and urea strippers.
For this contract, some 1,160 metric tons will be delivered over 25 months.
“L&T have gone through SCJV’s meticulous tender process and have been awarded a significant package of modular fabrication based on their technical expertise, quality, HSE and operational excellence,” said Vikas Rambal, chairperson of Perdaman.
L&T is a member of the Breakbulk Global Shipper Network, an extensive networking platform for executives operating at the top end of the project supply chain in sectors such as oil and gas, energy and renewables, mining and minerals, construction, forestry, industrial manufacturing and aerospace.
The next in-person meet-up for BGSN members will be at Breakbulk Americas 2023, taking place on 26-28 September at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.
PHOTO: transport of carbamate condenser. CREDIT: L&T
