Hitachi ABB Power Grids (ABB Power Products and Systems India Ltd.) has won a contract to provide power infrastructure at HPCL Rajasthan Refinery’s proposed 181,000-bpd complex under construction in the Barmer District, Rajasthan. Under the deal which is estimated to reach INR1 billion ($13.7 million), ABB Power Products and Systems India Ltd will supply the complex with a 220/66-kV substation.
Hitachi ABB Power Grids will equip the substation with advanced automation systems and gas-insulated switchgear that will allow reliable and smooth power delivery from the state grid to the facility as well as protect the facility’s power grid. Hitachi ABB Power Grids will also deploy power transformers to improve the safety and efficiency of the complex’s power infrastructure.
HPCL Rajasthan Refinery is a joint venture between Rajasthan state government and India’s state refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL). The JV previously let a contract to Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG) to provide its proprietary delayed coking technology for the complex’s 48,200-bpd delayed coking plant. Meanwhile, McDermott will provide license and basic engineering design for the complex’s two 420,000-tons/year polypropylene plants.
The proposed Barmer integrated refinery and petrochemical complex will include these following capacities: 181,000 bpd crude distillation, 96,400 bpd vacuum distillation, 36,100 bpd naphtha hydrotreating, 58,200 bpd fluid catalytic cracking, 48,200 bpd delayed coking, 2 x 490,000 tons/year PP, 2 x 416,000 tons/year swing LLDPE/HDPE, etc.
