Engineers India Limited (EIL): Engineering The Global Energy Landscape

New Delhi, Feb 07: The world is witnessing a paradigm shift in the global energy landscape and countries across the globe have been tuning their energy policies aligned with the contemporary energy demand to buttress their renewable energy portfolio. India is one of the leading nations that has taken several key steps including the Biofuel Policy implementation, promoting Energy Conservation & Energy Efficiency, rolling out Green Hydrogen Policy to name a few in the recent past showcasing its commitments towards meeting its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDCs) targets.

Leadership in Refining and Petrochemicals Business

EIL has been changing its gears in sync with the demand of the energy industry. The organization’s journey of building the energy infrastructure for India started way back in 1965 with the Madras Refinery Project. Since then, the role of EIL has been instrumental in bringing new technologies in the country both in terms of assessment and handholding towards building the national energy infrastructure.

As we know, India is committed to a mammoth economic target to reach $5 trillion by the year 2025 and around $7 trillion by 2030 which necessitates the higher energy requirement for the country in the years to come. Owing to the burgeoning energy demand, India’s refining capacity is anticipated to reach around 450 Million Metric tons per Annum (MMTPA) from the existing capacity of about 254 MMTPA. In its journey of around six decades, our company has established itself as an ecosystem enabler with an array of expertise in diverse industrial sectors including Refining, Fertiliser, Energy efficient Infrastructure, Chemicals & Petrochemicals among others.

It is worth noting that 20 out of 23 Refineries with a combined refining capacity of around 165 MMTPA and 10 out of 11 Mega Petrochemical Complexes in India have EIL’s strong footprints. EIL has an impressive track record of implementing large number of projects in India and overseas notably Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Far East. Over 7000 assignments consisting of 400 major projects valued at more than US$ 200 Billion have been undertaken by EIL.

Along with robust GDP growth, the chemicals and petrochemicals are also likely to grow at almost the same pace with that of GDP. Our current per capita consumption of petrochemical which is only 1/3rd of world average is the driving force behind the anticipated growth in the petrochemical sectors. The size of petrochemicals industry is projected to reach around $370 billion by the year 2040 from its present worth of around $51 billion to meet the demand of plethora of petrochemical products in the years to come.

EIL has played a key role in the implementation of mega petrochemical projects in India and is poised to take up such assignments in the years to come with its impeccable track record in providing its services in the Oil & Gas business. For instance, HRRL Project is one of the highest petrochemical intensities grassroot integrated refinery cum petrochemical complex in India being implemented by EIL. Its petrochemical intensity is almost 25% and is configured to diversify the products based on the prevailing fuel and petrochemical market demand.

It is worth noting that EIL has already implemented one of the complex petrochemical projects in the form of Guru Gobind Singh Petro Addition Project (GGSPAP) for HMEL in which a world class dual feed cracker facility has been installed. On the other hand, EIL has also been involved in the preparation of DFR for integration of petrochemical complex with the existing Bina Refinery of BPCL.

In the past few years, EIL broadened its horizon in the hydrocarbon and fertilizer business beyond its consultancy and engineering services portfolio. This is reflected in the investments performed by the company in Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), a reputed oil marketing company and one of the largest capacity urea producing Ramagundam Fertilizer Corporation Limited in the state of Telangana. RFCL was recently dedicated to the nation by the Honourable Prime Minister of India.

Expanding Geographical Outreach

EIL has been transforming its business operations to emerge as a global industrial powerhouse through its robust engineering and technology portfolio. EIL has already showcased its unparalleled track record of mega project implementation in new geographies. The execution of Dangote Oil Refinery Project (DORC) in Nigeria having total capital outlay of almost $20 billion with highest single train refining capacity in the world exemplifies EIL’s contribution in fulfilling our Honourable Prime Minister’s vision of ‘Local to Global’.

EIL has provided its services for the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline which was jointly inaugurated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina in the recent past.

The company entered in the new geography andmarked its footprints in the Latin America as well. It is providing Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services for the Integrated Natural Gas Liquids Plant and 300 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Powerplant in Guyana. In addition, EIL is playing a key role in the execution of a Grassroot Mongol refinery project under the G2G collaboration framework between India and Mongolia towards meeting the energy demand for the country. The Mongol refinery project is testament of EIL’s capabilities of providing services in the harsh climatic conditions.

EIL has inspection offices across the globe catering to both domestic and international market. The company has been able to strengthen its outreach in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by strengthening its engineering office in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Emerging Green Business Ecosystem Enabler

The company has marked its strong presence in the green energy business both on its own or in collaboration with national and international partners in the areas of Green Hydrogen/ Green Ammonia, Bio Fuels, Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCUS), Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), Flare Gas Recovery etc., and emerged as an ecosystem enabler to assist its diverse clientele in achieving their energy transition objectives. For instance, EIL has recently executed an MoU with the Sunrise CSP group to implement projects based on various applications of Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) technology in the process units leading to lower the consumption of fossil fuels.

The first step towards achieving the energy transition objectives is to identify the low-hanging fruits in respective industrial sectors. EIL has performed energy efficiency improvement studies (EEIS) of Refineries and Petrochemical complexes for both Indian and International clients. This could be one of the important steps to achieve the energy conservation targets. EIL also offers IIoT based digital technological solutions for optimizing the performance of existing assets in terms of energy consumption.

The company has developed unique capabilities and experience for implementation of Biofuels projects and is providing its services in the implementation of one of largest capacities Biorefinery project in India for Assam Biorefinery Private Limited (ABRPL), a JV of NRL, Fortum and Chempolis OY. The project is being implemented by EIL based on the technology supplied by Chempolis OY, Finland. This project is anticipated to set the benchmark for India’s Biorefinery programmes in the coming years. In addition, EIL is playing a crucial role in providing technological solutions for decarbonizing the aviation sector in collaboration with CSIR-IIP, Dehradun. One of the Bio-ATF plant is already being implemented by EIL for one of its clients.

Further, the company has also broadened its horizon in implementation of energy efficient infrastructure projects. Some of them include consultancy services for Jewar Airport, Noida, AP Airport Development Corporation etc. It is worth noting that EIL is already implementing infrastructure projects related to state-of-the-art Data Centres, Leh Airport, GRIHA and LEED compliant Buildings and projects related to Restoration of Heritage buildings etc.

There has been a strong push to roll out green hydrogen projects at large scale to accelerate the decarbonisation of the industry. EIL has been front runner in implementing the projects related to Green Hydrogen as well both for its production through electrolysers and blending GH2 in the existing natural gas pipelines.

Hence, EIL’s role is not only significant in the growth of energy industry around energy transition imperatives but also immense in assisting the industry in their energy transition journey to achieve net zero carbon emissions within the projected timeline. EIL is leading the industry by example and declared to become net zero carbon emitting corporate by the year 2035.

EIL has strategized its growth plan with five-pronged strategy of Strategic collaboration, Diversification in new areas, Innovation & Technology, Expanding Geographies and Operational Excellence. In all these areas, EIL has made significant progress in the recent past and is accelerating its efforts to increase the revenue by securing more business in the sunshine areas beyond its robust oil & gas portfolio both in India and overseas.

Moving Ahead India’s energy transition cannot be isolated with the rest of the world in the light of changing geopolitical scenarios and Technology ReadinessLevel (TRL) of the development in the emerging areas of the energy sector across the globe. The role of Research and Development (R&D) in the areas of emerging energy technologies would be crucial in achieving the climate change mitigation targets within the defined timelines. However, the pace of successful implementation of clean energy technologies across diverse sectors warrants collaborative efforts among various stakeholders. Taking the success story further and bringing more values through R&D and innovation culture in the organisation, EIL has declared this year as “The Year of COLLABORATION” to provide innovative and cost-effective technological solutions to its diverse clientele fully aligned with EIL’s new vision “To be a Global Leader offering Total Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future.”