L&T Modular Fabrication Yard, a subsidiary of L&T, has received an order from
ONGC to fabricate a massive jacket structure at a cost of $925 million (approx
Rs 4,440 crore).
The jacket weighing in excess of 10,000 million tonne will be the biggest
single-piece structure to be fabricated in the entire Gulf region. Work on the
jacket is scheduled to begin in January 2010 at L&T’s waterfront fabrication
yard within the Port of Sohar in Oman. The 60-metre-high structure is a key
component of an offshore facility destined for ONGC's Mumbai High North field. A
special skid-way will also be built at the Sohar yard on top of which the
ultra-large jacket structure will be fabricated.