Here is an ongoing chronicle of domestic and overseas contracts involving Indian companies in October 2006. (Key: entity placing the order, entity receiving the order) [Click here for archives]

A. Domestic Contracts

31 Oct 06

• Unity Infraprojects bagged an order worth Rs.85.1 crore collectively from:

1. Public Works Department, Karnataka for construction of circuit bench of the high court at Gulbarga. [contract value: Rs.66.6 crore]
2. Takhat Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib, Nanded towards construction of Guru Granth Sahib Bhavan, Nanded. [contract value: Rs.18.5 crore]

28 Oct 06

• SAAG RR Infra bagged an order worth Rs.7 crore from Saveetha Engineering College for construction of thier college building at Mavallur Kuppam near Chennai. (project details)

• Cable Corporation of India bagged an order worth Rs.99 crore from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board for installation of an EHV segment.

26 Oct 06

• Elecon Engineering bagged an order worth Rs.70.19 crore from NTPC for design, engineering, manufacturing, testing, supplying, erection and commissioning of wagon tippler package of Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power project.

25 Oct 06

• BSEL Infrastructure Realty and Unity Infraprojects bagged an order worth Rs.545 crore from Nagpur Municipal Corporation to build six malls in Nagpur.

19 Oct 06

• GEI Hammon Industries bagged an order worth Rs.25 crore from Larsen & Toubro for design and supply of duplex steel high pressure air cooled heat exchangers for ONGC-VEDP off-shore platform.

• The Indian unit of FlSmidth, Denmark's leading engineering company, has won two cement plant orders in India together valued at over Rs.220 crore. (more...)

18 Oct 06

• Yamuna Gases & Chemicals bagged an order worth Rs.15.75 crore from Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam for 8 sub stations on turnkey basis for design, supply and installation of 33 kV sub station - 210 km 33 kV transmission lines and 200 km 11kV transmission lines. Work on the project is scheduled for completion by July 2007.

16 Oct 06

• IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects bagged an order worth Rs.329 crore for the following:

1. Water transmission works in the states of Gujarat and Kerala [contract value: Rs.284 crore]
2. Building works [contract value: Rs.45 crore]

12 Oct 06

• Otis Elevator Co, a unit of United Technologies Corp, bagged two contracts to supply and install 174 elevators and escalators for a new super mall in Mumbai and a major IT complex in Pune. (more...)

• Bharat Heavy Electricals bagged an EPC contract worth Rs.950 crore from Bharat Oman Refinery for setting up a 99 MW (3x33 MW) captive power plant for its refinery project at Bina in Madhya Pradesh. (more...)  (project details)

11 Oct 06

• TN (DK) Expressways promoted by Madhucon Projects bagged a contract worth Rs.360 crore from National Highways Authority of India for the 67.68 km stretch between Karur and Dindigul in Tamil Nadu on BOT basis. (more...)  (project details)

• DS Constructions won the 260 MW Kutehr hydel project in Himachal Pradesh on BOT basis. (more...)

10 Oct 06

• Elecon Engineering bagged an order worth Rs.36.75 crore from Madras Cement for supplying material handling equipments such as stacker, reclaimers and wagon tippler for its Jayanthipuram (Line 2 project ) and Ariyalur project.

• Indo Tech Transformers bagged an order worth Rs.95 crore from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board for power transformers of 8 MVA (33 kV) and 16 MVA (33 kV) and 110 kV ratings.

09 Oct 06

• Dolphin Offshore Enterprises India along with Naftogaz Consortium bagged an order worth Rs.147 crore ($32.196 million) from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation for the BBBLRP Project. Work on the project will be implemented in two phases. Phase I  and Phase II is scheduled for completion by 30 April 2007 and 28 February 2008 respectively.

• Patel Engineering bagged two railway projects worth Rs.176 crore from Rail Vikas Nigam for two railway projects (more...)  (project details) (project details)

07 Oct 06

• Petron Engineering bagged an order worth Rs.3.18 crore from Nagarjuna Fertilisers & Chemicals for complete erection of ammonium converter with S-300 basket.

06 Oct 06

• Reliance Industries bagged an order from Hyderabad International Airport to set up a fuel storage and service facility at the upcoming Shamshabad international airport at Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. (more news) (project details)

05 Oct 06

• Bharat Heavy Electricals received the first commercial order from Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Co for supply, erection, testing and commissioning of an 80 MVAR, 400 kV controlled shunt reactor at Karad Substation on Karad - Lonikand line on turnkey basis. Work on the project is scheduled for completion within18 months. The reactor transformer for the CSR shall be manufactured at BHEL's Bhopal plant while the company's electronics division, Bangalore, will supply the control equipment. (more...)

04 Oct 06

• Udhe India bagged an EPC contract from Haldia Petrochemicals for revamping/ expanding the polypropylene and linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE)/ high density polypropylene (HDPE) swing unit at its existing Haldia petrochemicals complex in Midnapore district of West Bengal. (project details)

03 Oct 06

• Petron Engineering Construction bagged an order worth Rs.12.43 crore from Madras Cement for mechanical fabrication and erection works for the cement project (new Line 2) at Jayanthipuram in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.

B. Overseas Contracts

27 Oct 06

• Suzlon Energy (Tianjin), China (a wholly owned subsidiary of Suzlon Energy) bagged an order for the supply of 50 MW of wind turbine capacity from China. The order is expected to be completed by 2007-08. The company has a consolidated order book position of Rs.6,637.87 crore, with Rs.5,813 crore in international orders and Rs.824.16 crore in domestic orders.

18 Oct 2006

• Larsen & Toubro (Oman) bagged an order worth $120 million (Rs.550 crore) for the construction of multi-storied apartments and villas at Sohar in the Sultanate of Oman. (more...)

12 Oct 06

• Denmark-based Suzlon Energy A/S bagged an order worth $283 million (Rs.1,300 crore) from SIIF Energies do Brasil Ltda to supply 225 MW wind turbines. The delivery of wind turbines will commence by March 2007 and the full order will be installed and commissioned over a period of 18 months.

• Indo Asian Fusegear bagged an order worth Rs.21 crore from Saudi National Lamp & Electric, Saudi Arabia for the export of electrical equipment, used in the manufacture of lighting products.

• Power Grid Corporation of India won a consultancy order from Afghanistan government (more...)

09 Oct 06

• Man Industries India bagged an order worth Rs.600 crore from companies in USA, Nigeria etc to build high pressure cross country gas transmission pipeline.

08 Oct 06

• Integral Coach Factory bagged an order worth Rs.55.59 crore through Rites for supply of 56 rail coaches in 10 varieties to Caminho de Ferro de Mocamedes Railways, Angola.

03 Oct 06

• Jyoti Structures and its consortium partner Gulf Jyoti International LLC, Dubai bagged an order worth Rs.180.27 crore from Dubai Electricity & Water Authority for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 400 kV D/C overhead transmission lines on a turnkey basis. Work on the project is scheduled for completion within 18 months.