Here is an ongoing chronicle of domestic and overseas contracts involving Indian companies in July 2008. (Key: entity placing the order, entity receiving the order) [Click here for archives]

A. Domestic Contracts

31 Jul 08

• IVRCL Infrastructures secured an order worth Rs357 crore from Government of Andhra Pradesh for AVR Handri Niva Sujala Shravanthi (HNSS) project Phase II. (more news)

• Jaihind Projects in consortium bagged an order of Rs.19.23 crore from Gujarat State Petronet for supply of 18" API 5L Gr. X65 PSL2 8.7/10.3mm WT HSAW/LSAW Line Pipes & 18" ball valves for Olpad GSEC Utran Pipeline project.

• Unity Infraprojects bagged a contract amounting to Rs.92 crore from Flagship Infrastructure for construction of nine residential high-rise buildings at Hinjewadi, Pune, to be completed within 42 months.

• Consolidated Construction Consortium bagged two prestigious civil works order worth Rs.240 crore for the Renault-Nissan automobile plant as well as the Global Automotive Centre for the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP) in Chennai. (more news) (project details)

29 Jul 08

• HCC-SEW-MEIL JV comprising Hindustan Construction Co (HCC), SEW Infrastructure and Megha Engineering & Infrastructure (MEIL) bagged a contract for construction of barrage of around 3.5 km with head regulator across River Pranahita for Pranahita-Chevella Lift Irrigation Scheme - Package-III near Tummidi Hetti Village in Adilabad District of Andhra Pradesh. (more news) (project details)

• ABB has won orders worth Rs.455 crore from Vedanta Aluminum to provide automation and power products, systems and solutions for expansion of their aluminum smelter plant at Jharsuguda, in Orissa. (more news) (project details)

• Titagarh Wagons bagged orders worth Rs.200 crore from a single customer in the private sector for manufacturing of 900 wagons.

28 Jul 08

• Great Offshore bagged a turnkey engineering services contract worth Rs.234 crore from Oil & Natural Gas Corporation. (more news)

26 Jul 08

• Supreme Infrastructure secured two projects worth Rs.30 crore from Mundra Port & Special Economics Zone (SEZ) for infrastructure development related works. The firm has received the orders worth Rs.19.58 crore and Rs.10.43 crore, respectively for mining, transportation and profiling of rocks, among others.

• Jaisu Shipping bagged a combined contract for maintenance dredging and capital dredging at Kochi Port. (more news)

• Lodha Group has awarded a long term IT transformation contract to Wipro Infotech. (more news)

25 Jul 08

• Areva T&D bagged a contract worth 40 million euros from Larsen & Toubro for the supply of a substation package for Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. Areva will design and manufacture a 66 kV substation which will supply the new terminal 3. (project details)

23 Jul 08

• Valecha Engineering bagged an order for Rs.98 crore for executing a road project at Indore and another Rs.35 crore contract for constructing a bridge at Delhi. These projects are to be executed in 18 to 24 months.

• J Kumar Infraprojects secured an Rs.20 crore from Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority for construction of sky walk from Kanjurmarg Station (East) to MMRDA Colony, at Virar station (East), at Virar Station (West). It also secured order for Rs.33 Crore from Planning Cell, Engineering Services & Project Bldg for augmentation of SWD system at Catchment No 117 BPT Colony, railway yard and training of Kharoo Creek Nalla.

22 Jul 08

• Precision Automotive Robotics Inc (PARI) bagged a Rs.15 crore order from Chrysler to develop an automated axle manufacturing system. The scope of work involves supplying fully automated manufacturing processes with robotic technologies for operations such as assembling, fastening, sealing and testing of axles for Chrysler vehicles. The entire system will be designed, built and tested at PARI's new automation facility in Pune, and deployed in the US through its Detroit-based subsidiary.

• Artson Engineering, a subsidiary of Tata projects bagged a Rs.36.27 crore order from HPCL-Mittal Energy to manufacture and erect four crude oil storage tanks at Bhatinda. The order will be executed within a period of 18 months.

• Era Infra Engineering bagged a contract worth Rs.30.90 crore for construction of buildings and associated works at Manesar by National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP).

21 Jul 08

• IVRCL Infrastructure & Projects secured five new orders worth Rs.351.21 crore (more news) (project details) (project details)

• Larsen & Toubro has secured a Rs.244 crore contract from Sterlite Energy to set up a dedicated railway siding in Orissa for its 4x600 MW coal based power plant in Jharsuguda district of Orissa. (more news) (project details)

18 Jul 08

• PBA Infrastructure bagged an order worth Rs.18.84 crore from Hindustan Petroleum Corporation for site leveling, construction of road drains and culverts etc at Calico land.

• Kirby Building Systems secured a Rs.190 crore order from Renault-Nissan Automotive India for constructing the latter's manufacturing facility near Chennai. (more news) (project details)

17 Jul 08

• McNally Bharat Engineering Co received an order worth Rs.246 crore from Vedanta Alumina for design, detailed engineering, manufacture & supply of equipment, erection and commissioning of three units green mode plant (35 tph each) at Jharsuguda, Orissa. (project details)

• Kalpataru Power Transmission bagged orders worth Rs.203 crore from Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation to execute 150 km of Varsana-Hadala and 116 km of Hadala-Vadinar 400 kV transmission lines on turnkey basis.

16 Jul 08

• Blue Star bagged a Rs.104 crore ($24 million) order from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation to provide total air-conditioning to seven metro stations. (more news) (project details)

• TRF bagged an order worth Rs.414 crore from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of coal handling plant on turn-key basis for 2 X 600 MW Raghunathpur power project (Phase I). (project details)

• Thermax got order worth Rs.820 crore for the supply of coal-fired boilers for a unnamed refinery's captive co-generation plant. (more news)

• BGR Energy Systems bagged an EPC contract worth Rs.4,900.06 crore from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam for the 2 x 600 MW Kali Sindh coal based power project in Jhalawar district. (more news) (project details)

14 Jul 08

• Era Infra Engineering bagged an order worth Rs.95.5 crore from Bharat Heavy Electricals for civil, structural and architectural work for main power block along with its auxiliaries and BOP for Gujarat State Electricity Corporation's1 x 500 MW thermal power station, Extension Unit 6 at Ukai in Surat district. (project details)

• Madhucon Projects bagged an EPC contract worth Rs.989.5 crore from Simhapuri Energy for setting up a 2x135 MW coal based power project (Phase I) at Krishnapatnam in Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh. (more news) (project details)

11 Jul 08

• Zoom Developers bagged a Rs.425 crore order from Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation for construction of a 52 km four-lane bypass road project in Bhopal on BOT basis. (more news) (project details)

• Artson Engineering received an order worth Rs.36.2 crore from HPCL - Mittal Energy for crude oil storage tanks (4 nos.) work for the Guru Gobind Singh Refinery Project at Bhatinda in Punjab. (project details)

• Punjab State Electricity Board issued a letter of intent to Sterlite Industries for developing the 1,980 MW Talwandi Sabo thermal power plant at Banwala in Mansa district of Punjab. (more news) (project details)

• Bharat Heavy Electricals secured a contract worth Rs.2,175 crore from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board for setting up a 600 MW North Chennai coal based power project in Tamil Nadu on EPC basis. (more news) (project details)

• Siemens VAI Metal Technologies, India, along with Siemens VAI, France, has bagged an order from Tata BlueScope Steel to supply, erect and commission a colour coating line and a hot-dip zincalume line, at Tata Steel's production plant at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. (more news) (project details)

10 Jul 08

• Karnataka Legal Education Society has bagged the Rs.500 crore Medical Health City project from Kolhapur Municipal Corporation. (more news)

09 Jul 08

• Petron Engineering has received four letter of intent from Utility Energytech Engineers (more news) (project details) (project details)

• IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects bagged an order worth Rs.409.71 crore from Government of Andhra Pradesh, Irrigation & CAD Department for investigation, design and execution of lift scheme from Thotapally Reservoir to Gouravelly Reservoir including tunnel and other allied works near Regonda village, Husnabad Mandal of Karimnagar district.

08 Jul 08

• Siemens Mobility received baggage handling contract worth Rs.300 crore for Delhi International Airport for the new Terminal 3 at Delhi International Airport. (more news) (project details)

• Larsen & Toubro bagged an order worth Rs.1,047 crore from Indian Railways for setting up a cast steel manufacturing plant at Saran in Chhapra district of Bihar. (more news) (project details)

07 Jul 08

• Bharat Heavy Electricals bagged an order worth Rs.2,500 crore from Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Co to provide boilers for a 1,600 MW coal based power project at Krishnapatnam in Nellore district. (more news) (project details)

• Larsen & Toubro bagged an order worth Rs.446 crore from JSW Power Transco for evacuation of power from the 1,200 MW Jaigad coal based power project, being set up by JSW Energy (Ratnagiri). (more news)

• ICSA India secured work order worth Rs.79.88 crore from Ajmer Vidyut Vitran Nigam for providing rural electricity infrastructure under Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojna of Banswara district in Rajasthan on turnkey basis.

04 Jul 08

• Unity Infraprojects in JV with Brahmaputra Infrastructure and Brahmaputra Consortium (BCL) bagged an order aggregating to Rs.135.70 crore from PWD, Government of Assam for construction of Tezpur Medical College at Bihugori Tezpur in Darrang district. (more news)

03 Jul 08

• Punj Lloyd bagged an order worth Rs.1,005 crore from GVK Power (Goindwal Sahib), Hyderabad for the 2x270 MW Goindwal Sahib coal based power project in Taran Taran district of Punjab. (more news) (project details)

• GEI Industrial Systems bagged an order worth Rs.50 crore from Essar Construction India for supply of air cooled heat exchangers for the refinery expansion project at Vadinar in Gujarat. (project details)

02 Jul 08

• ICSA India secured work orders worth Rs.145.91 Crores from Uttar Haryana Bijlee Vitaran Nigam, Dakshin Haryana Bijlee Vitaran Nigam and Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co and others, for supply and erection of 132 kV substations and lines, 33/11 kV substations and lines, 11 kV substations and lines along with erection, testing and commissioning of HT, LT, DTRs.

• ABB India bagged an order worth Rs.312 crore from Delhi International Airport for supply of electrical infrastructure for the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport's new terminal (T3) (more news) (project details)

01 Jul 08

• BGR Energy Systems bagged a contract worth Rs.3,100 crore from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) for 1x600 MW thermal power Mettur project. (more news) (project details)

• Hindustan Construction Co bagged an order from National Highway Authority of India to construct the 4.4 km elevated six lane highway at Badrapur on NH 2 (Mathura Road) near Delhi on BOT basis. (more news) (project details)

B. Overseas Contracts

08 Aug 08

• Bharat Heavy Electricals bagged an order worth Rs.400 crore ($95 million) to build a hydroelectric plant for setting up two units generating 14 MW each for the Nyaborongo hydroelectric power project in Rwanda.

• Shivsu Canadian Clear Waters India bagged an order worth Rs.250 crore to install the world's largest containerized desalination plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). (more news)

04 Aug 08

• Bharat Heavy Electricals bagged a contract worth Rs.200 crore from Government of Vietnam for Nam Chien hydro power project in the Muong La district in the Son La province of Vietnam. (more news)

24 Jul 08

• Diamond Cables bagged an order worth $37 million (approx Rs.148 crore) to supply transformers, cables, conductors and other electrical products from one of the leading power utilities in Africa. The order which is to be supplied over a period of 2 year includes supply of 2450 transformers and various other products.

18 Jul 08

• Punj Lloyd received an order worth $108 million (approx.Rs.432 crore) from Tecnicas Reunidas, Spain for mechanical works on two offsites and utilities Project of Abu Dhabi Polymers Co, UAE. The scope of the work involves steel erection, piping fabrication & erection, equipment erection, painting & insulation.

15 Jul 08

• BEML bagged export orders worth Rs.44.50 crore from two African countries - Tunisia and Malawi. The orders comprised of 35 equipment worth Rs.21.50 crore from Tunisia, and Rs.13 crore for 18 equipment from Malawi.

• Sterlite Technology bagged four contracts worth $15.5 million from infrastructure companies in Nigeria, Uganda, Algeria and Bangladesh. Sterlite will manufacture and supply power conductors for these companies.

• Siemens received an order of around Rs.200 crore from the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Sri Lanka for the modernisation and upgradation of the medium-voltage distribution network of Colombo. (more news)

09 Jul 08

• BEML bagged two export orders for Rs.207 crore for supply of mining equipment from Pt Fajar Bumi Sakti, Indonesia and Far East Resources & Mining Co, Singapore (more news)

01 Jul 08

• Bharat Heavy Electricals received a contract worth $485 million (approx. Rs.2,080 crore) from Public Establishment of Electricity for Generation & Transmission (PEEGT) for a 400MW Tishreen thermal power Plant extension project. (more...)