October 07, 2008

L&T bags major contract for Kuwait\'s clean fuel project

It is reported that Larsen & Toubro has bagged the contract worth USD 421 million to manufacture and supply of 22 hydro cracker and atmospheric residue desulphurization reactors for Kuwait National Petroleum Co's clean fuel project 2020.

The proposed order is the largest export order ever placed with any single manufacturer in the world for such critical reactors. These reactors will be manufactured from advanced technology steels containing Chromium, Molybdenum and Vanadium, with thickness up to 300 mm and weights up to 1450 tonnes per annum.

L&T will manufacture these critical reactors in its state of the art facilities at Hazira works. These reactors are required to be delivered to the refinery in Kuwait by December 2010-11.