ONGC Petro-additions has awarded a $1.4 billion contract to the consortium of Germany-based Linde and Korea-based Samsung Engineering.
ONGC Petro-additions (OPAL), a joint venture company promoted by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) with 26% equity, and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation, is implementing a mega petrochemicals project in the special economic zone (SEZ) at Dahej, Gujarat.
According to the company, the component of this project is a dual feed cracker to produce 1,100 kilo-tonnes per annum of ethylene and 340 kilo-tonnes per annum of propylene.
ONGC said that the award of the contract in the present business environment is a proof of national importance that owes to successful commissioning by December 2012. The in-house feed stock for the project would be Naphtha streams from ONGC’s Hazira and Uran land processing plants and C2-C3 from Dahej plant.
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