Here is an ongoing chronicle of domestic and overseas contracts involving Indian companies in March 2007. (Key: entity placing the order, entity receiving the order) [Click here for archives]

A. Domestic Contracts

30 Mar 07

• Patel Engineering in joint venture with Gammon India has bagged order worth Rs.806 crore order from the Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam for the 434 MW Rampur hydro-electric power project in Himachal Pradesh. (more...) (project details)

29 Mar 07

• TRF received a letter of intent from Navayuga Engineering Co for supply, installation and commissioning of yard equipment like wagon loaders/unloaders, stacker-reclaimers, wagon tipplers and conveying system required for up to Rs.125 crore for Krishnapatnam Port.

• Man Industries India has bagged an order worth approximately $225 million (around Rs.1,012.5 crore)  from a company in the United States of America for manufacturing and supplying 257 miles of 42" LSAW and HSAW line pipes with external and internal anti-corrosion coating systems. (more...)

• Sterlite Optical Technologies secured an order worth Rs.180 crore from Power Grid Corporation of India to manufacture and supply power transmission conductors for India's first 500 kV HVDC lines. (more...)

28 Mar 07

• A consortium of Kalindee Rail Nirman Engineers and Spanish-based Cobra Instalaciones Y Services, Madrid, bagged an order of Rs.118.70 crore from Rail Vikas Nigam for construction of Palwal Bhuteshwar 3rd Line in Uttar Pradesh. (project details)

26 Mar 07

• PBA Infrastructure bagged an order worth Rs.8.50 crore from Executive Engineer, Multistoreyed Bldgs, Mumbai for improvement to Sion Panvel Highway from Kopara Gaon km 120/220 to BARC Junction km 140/690. (project details)

• BSEL Infrastructure Realty bagged orders from Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam for construction of star category hotel at Rewa Bhavan in the vicinity of Sardar Sarovar Dam and for developing tourist destination at Y-junction located at Karan Nagar in Ahmedabad.

• Nagarjuna Construction Co bagged three orders worth Rs.302 crore from:

1. Directorate of Public Health, Engineering, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata for surveying, planning, designing, delivery, erection and construction of all civil, electrical mechanical works for the surface water based water supply scheme in Nadia district. [contract value: Rs.246 crore].
2. The balance Rs.56 crore order comprises of two minor orders received by the company.

23 Mar 07

• Elecon Engineering Co has received following orders aggregating to Rs.39.57 crore (more...) (project details) (project details)

• Kirloskar Brothers as a lead partner in JV with Kbl-Koya-Va Tech has received order worth Rs.274.40 crore from Government of Madhya Pradesh, Public Health Engineering Department, Bhopal for engineering, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and trial run for Narmada water supply project in Bhopal. From the total contract value, Kirloskar Brothers share is Rs.106.77 crore. (project details)

• Afcons Infrastructure bagged an order worth Rs.245 crore related to Kochi Port and the execution of a portion of an offshore pipeline project near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu.

22 Mar 07

• Punj Lloyd has bagged a Rs.242 crore contract from Oil & Natural Gas Corporation to construct the Uran Trombay Gas Pipeline (UTG) project on a turnkey basis. (more...) (project details)

• McNally Bharat Engineering Co bagged an order worth Rs.20.9 crore from National Aluminium Co for indigenous supply of equipments and spares for hyper dense phase system for smelter phase II expansion project of NALCO at Angul in Orissa. (project details)

21 Mar 07

• Marubeni Corporation jointly with Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery bagged a contract worth Japanese yen 16 billion from JSW Steel for supply of hot strip mill with capacity of 3.5 million tpa (Phase I) and to further increase the capacity to 5 million tpa under Phase II at Toranagallu in Bellary district of Karnataka. Phase I is scheduled for completion within 27 months. (project details)

20 Mar 07

• National Highways Authority of India issued letter of acceptance to Reliance Energy for the development of 88 km long Trichy-Dindigul Section of NH-45 in Tamil Nadu under NHDP-IIIA on BOT basis. (project details)

• Diamond Cables bagged an order worth Rs.44 crore for supplying transmission conductors 1,400 km, out of which 690 km is from Larsen and Toubro and 710 km for export to Africa.

17 Mar 07

• PBA Infrastructure bagged orders from Brihanmumbai Mahanagarpalika, Mumbai for the following:

1. E-194: Concreting and improvement of side strips of the roads and allied works in M/West Ward: a) R C Marg from Tembe Bridge to Hemu Kalani Marg, b) Road No. 15 from DK Sandu Road to RC Marg, c) Road No. 17 from DK Sandu Road to RC Marg. [contract value: Rs.8.45 crore]
2. E-197: Concreting and improvement of Roads 'S' & 'T' Ward for a) Swapna Nagari road and b) Goshala road including improvement of roads and side strip in Paver blocks in 'S' & 'T' Ward. [contract value: Rs.20.08 crore].

15 Mar 07

• Kirloskar Brothers received an order worth Rs.344 crore from Government of Andhra Pradesh, Irrigation and CAD Department, for construction of pumping stations at Vasanthavada, Peddavagu Project and Bandarugudem Tank including electro mechanical and hydro mechanical works including site development for Indira Sagar Lift Irrigation Project (Polavaram). (project details)

• Larsen & Toubro and its international consortium partners of Paul Wurth Italia and India have bagged an EPC contract valued over Rs.1,400 crore from Rashtriya Ispat Nigam for expansion of Vizag Steel Plant. (more...) (project details)

14 Mar 07

• PSL bagged an order worth $21 million from Reliance Industries for KG-DWN-98/3 in Bay of Bengal, off the east coast of India. The scope of work includes the design, engineering, supply, and installation of sacrificial anodes, fabrication and coating of induction bends, and other allied works like fabrication of spools at Kakinada. (project details)

• Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution (PTD) and consortium partner Bharat Heavy Electricals  bagged an order worth Euros 235 million from Power Grid Corporation of India to construct 2,500 MW HVDC terminal stations for a 780 km long HVDC transmission route. (more...)

• Gayatri Projects bags Rs.192 crore order (more...) (project details) (project details)

• Nagarjuna Construction Co bagged has secured various orders totalling Rs.348 crore. The major orders are from Government of Andhra Pradesh, Irrigation & CAD (PW) Department for irrigation project in Kurnool district [contract value: Rs.86 crore] and from Punjab Cricket Association for construction of cricket stadium at Mohali in Chandigarh [contract value: Rs.74 crore]

13 Mar 07

• Sadbhav Engineering bagged an order worth Rs.39 crore from the office of the Executive Engineer, OECF Division No. II, Kamakhyanagar in Dhenkanal district, Orissa for providing cement concrete lining in the selected reaches of left bank canal in between 29.177 km to 71.313 km under OECF Package No. 22.

12 Mar 07

• IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects bagged orders collectively worth Rs.313.43 crore (more...)

• ThyssenKrupp Industries (India) bagged orders for two captive power plants of 2x25 MW each from Aditya Birla Group on EPC basis.

08 Mar 07

• Kirloskar Brothers has received a letter of award from Power Grid Corporation of India for supply and erection of equipment and material for construction of new 33/11 kV sub-station, augmentation of existing substations and rural electrifications and rural electrification in Cachar district of Assam. The value of contract is Rs.56.32 crore.

07 Mar 07

• Petron Engineering Construction received a letter of intent from Vedanta Alumina for design, engineering, manufacturing, erection, commissioning of 11 nos. single girder and 2 no double girder EOT cranes for various shops in its aluminium smelter at Jharsuguda in Orissa. The value of contract is Rs.31.7 crore. (project details)

• Unity Infraprojects in 70:30 joint venture with Shyam Narayan & Brothers (SNB) has received the letter of acceptance from Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai for training of Mithi River (widening & deepening, RCC Retaining wall, service road) from CST Road upto Airport culvert. The value of contract is Rs.45.8 crore.

• Tantia Constructions has bagged orders worth Rs.159.99 crore (more...)

06 Mar 07

• Maytas-NCC consortium and Reliance Energy received a letter of acceptance from National Highways Authority of India for Pondicherry-Tindivanam NH-66 road project and Tiruchchirappalli-Karur NH-9 road project under NHDP III A on BOT basis. (project details) (project details)

• Suzlon Energy bagged a contract from Reliance Energy for setting up of a 150 MW wind turbine project in Sangli district of Maharashtra. The contract will be executed in two phases and is scheduled for completion by March 2008. (more...)

• Gemini Communication bagged a Rs.75 crore order from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board for computerization of their 1,725 collection centers across the state which directly caters to 15 million consumers. With this project, TNEB will be able to interlink all their collection centers to a centralized server system thus offering efficient and online customer services at their centers. This order represents the largest wireless networking solution ever implemented in India. The entire project is slated to be completed within 4 months.

01 Mar 07

• Genus Overseas Electronics bagged an order worth Rs.20 crore from Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board and Torrent Power AEC for supply of electronic energy metres.

B. Overseas Contracts

29 Mar 07

• Kilburn Engineering bagged an order worth $1.26 million (Rs.5.5 crore) from Thai Carbon Black Public of Thailand for supply of rotary drum along with accessories.

26 Mar 07

• Sembawang Engineers & Constructors, a subsidiary of Punj Lloyd has entered into agreement with Riffa Golf & Residential Development Co of Kingdom of Bahrain to construct 325 villas of a residential community, Riffa Views, adjacent to the existing Riffa Golf Club.  (more...)

16 Mar 07

• Simon Carves, a subsidiary of Punj Lloyd has been awarded a contract by Ensus Group to design and construct the world's largest wheat based bio-ethanol production facilities. (more...)

• Praj Industries bagged an order worth Rs.65 crore from De Smet S A Engineers & Contractors (EPC contractor engaged by Biowanze SA) for supply of equipment for the bio-ethanol process plant in Europe.