KBR Awarded Contract by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) to Implement ROSE® Technology at Mumbai Refinery
September 17 2009 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it has been awarded a
contract by the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL), to provide
license and engineering services and proprietary equipment for
augmenting the capacity of an existing de-asphalting unit in its
Mumbai Refinery in India.
KBR will perform a revamp on an existing propane de-asphalting
unit (PDA) using its proprietary ROSE® technology and
state-of-the-art ROSEMAX™ internals to achieve the key objective of
improving refinery margins. This contract has the unique importance
of being KBR’s 50th ROSE® license worldwide. KBR’s ROSE® technology
processes more than one million barrels per day (bpd) of feedstock
annually.
“This award is a great milestone for KBR as it is a testament to
the Company’s track record of high-quality work in this market,”
said John Rose, Group President, KBR Hydrocarbons. “We are proud to
partner with HPCL and we are confident that KBR’s expertise in this
area will lead to the successful completion of its facility
upgrade.”
HPCL is one of the largest Oil Refining & Marketing
companies in India with refineries in Mumbai and Visag. A third
refinery project of the company is being implemented in Punjab in
Northern India in JV with Mittal Energy Investment Pte. The Mumbai
refinery is being upgraded to increase distillates, particularly
automotive fuels production. The revamp of PDA unit is a part of
this upgrade project.
KBR is a global engineering, construction and services company
supporting the energy, hydrocarbon, government services and civil
infrastructure sectors. For more information, visit
www.kbr.com.
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