L&T Construction bags orders worth Rs. 1,038 cr.

The power transmission and distribution business of L&T Construction has bagged orders worth Rs. 1,038 crore from domestic and foreign market during November. In a statement to the BSE, it said that its fully owned subsidiary in Saudi Arabia has bagged a $108.2-million order from National Grid, a subsidiary of Saudi Electricity company. This is for the construction of five 132 kV substations. The project is in the central province of Saudi Arabia and is scheduled to be completed in 24 months. In the domestic market, the company has bagged an order from Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. It is for the engineering, supply, erection and commissioning of several kilometre of underground EHV and HV networks, compact substations and other distribution elements in Bhubaneshwar. This forms part of the power system improvement project in the State.

Punj Lloyd wins orders worth Rs. 483 cr.

Diversified engineering, procurement and construction company Punj Lloyd has won two rural electrification contracts worth ₹ 483 crore from NTPC Ltd. for two districts in Odisha under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana. The company said in a statement recently that the scope of work for these two projects includes supply and erection of rural electrification work, construction and augmentation of substation, installation of distribution transformers and connections to below poverty line consumers in the districts. "These projects come shortly after the company announced its debut in T&D with two orders for rural electrification by Power Grid Corporation of India Limited," said C K Thakur, President & CEO � Power, Punj Lloyd. "With this Punj Lloyd will be executing four T&D orders with a cumulative value of approximately ₹ 1,000 crore," he added. The group�s order backlog stands at ₹ 20,283 crore. The order backlog is the value of unexecuted orders on September 30, 2015 plus new orders received after that date.

NBCC bags Rs. 5,828 crore AIIMS project.

State-run NBCC has bagged a Rs. 5,828-crore redevelopment project from AIIMS which involves construction of 3,000 flats. "AIIMS issued a letter of award on November 23 to NBCC for the redevelopment of AIIMS western campus and Ayurvigyan Nagar, involving construction of 3,000 flats in 2.5 years with the financial implication of Rs. 5,828 crore," NBCC said in a regulatory filing. To make the project commercially viable, NBCC will sell 10% of the area. NBCC would be charging 10% of the final project cost as project management consultancy fee and 1% for marketing expenses. The MoU between AIIMS and NBCC will be signed after the Union cabinet's approval.

IOC Gujarat refinery to set up 1,400 kW solar power unit.

As a measure to reduce its carbon footprint and increase in utilisation of renewable energy, Gujarat Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOC) has laid out a plan to set up 1,400 kW of solar power systems that will be commissioned in the year 2016. A grid-connected 250- kW solar power system is already catering to the partial electricity requirement of technical building including daytime lighting and air conditioning, informed the company. "The system automatically gets synchronized with Gujarat Refinery�s Power System at LV level during day time and similarly gets offline during evening period. Grid-connected systems are the most common type of solar grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system," said S K Dhar Gupta, Executive Director, Gujarat Refinery. Dhar Gupta also mentioned that in a first for the Indian Oil refineries in India, the Gujarat Refinery has set up a Visual Model-based Safety Park to train its workforce. Inaugurated recently, the park constantly reminds and highlights the importance of safety measures to the workforce. "The refinery has a large number of contractual workers working for various tasks at the refinery. They require regular training on safety and precaution measures before conducting a job at the refinery. Lock Out Tag Out system and electrical safety systems, confined space entry safety system, hot job safety system, Chemical Safety procedures and SOPs have been put up in the safety park which shall be a complete safety guide for visitors, contract workers and employees of the refinery," said Dhar Gupta. For the first time, the company has used SEED (Safety in Each and Every Deed) project for safety culture improvement at Gujarat Refinery. "The genesis of the safety park lies in the fact that 80 per cent learning is done by observing and seeing the situation personally. In order to provide safety training that all workers can understand, we have tapped the visual model based approach to make an impact on the mind of the viewer," said Dhar Gupta. The company is implementing a Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plant within its 13.7 mtpa refinery complex with an investment of Rs. 160 crore. The mechanical completion of the RO plant is expected by March 2016. The RO plant will maximise reuse of treated effluent by improving its quality and thus reduce fresh water consumption considerably.

Essar's Italian venture bags $1.5-b order.

Essar Projects recently said its joint venture with Italy�s Saipem S.p.A won a $1.57 billion order from Kuwait National Petroleum Company for setting up a part of the Al-Zour Refinery Project. This is Essar�s biggest third-party order won in the region. The project at Al Zour is Kuwait's biggest development project with a crude processing capacity of 615,000 barrels per day (bpd). The Kuwaiti company has so far awarded four contracts for the refinery�s construction, worth over $13.2 billion to different International bidders. The project is expected to be completed by 2019. Essar Projects' Managing Director & CEO Shiba Panda said, "The project marks Essar's entry into the Kuwait project market with the biggest EPC contract by an external client." With this order, Essar Project�s order book has reached $2.8 billion, with projects being executed in nine countries