Larsen & Toubro bagged the contract
worth $421 million (Rs.1,695 crore) to manufacture and supply of 22
hydrocracker and atmospheric residue desulphurisation (ARDS) 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 tpa. 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.