1. 22é28'12"N | 70é4'12"E
Jamnagar Oil Refinery, Gujurat, India
SCOPE OF WORK
Engineering, procurement,
project management, and
construction consulting
VALUE
$6+ billion
SCHEDULE
2005Ú2008
BUSINESS
Oil, Gas & Chemicals
When Bechtel completed the
Reliance Jamnagar complex in
2000, it was the largest refinery
and petrochemicals complex
ever built from the ground up.
Now it's even bigger, and lays
claim to being the world's largest
oil­refining hub. It is the largest
industrial project ever
implemented by the Indian corporate sector.
We finished a second refinery, adjacent to the first in the West India state of
Gujarat, in 2008, nearly doubling the facility's capacity to more than 1.2
million barrels per day. Bechtel and its worldwide team completed this
massive project in a record time of less than three years.
The gasoline and diesel produced at Jamnagar is for export, predominantly
to the United States and Europe. In addition to the fuels produced by the
original refinery, it increased production of polypropylene, which is used
to create such products as fibers, films, and household plastic goods.
Inside the project
Jamnagar is much more than a pair of giant refineries. Itıs a massive,
integrated manufacturing complex that also boasts aromatics and a
petrochemical plant, a power generation system, a port and terminal
complex, and access to a pipeline network. The second refinery nearly
doubled the capacity of the Jamnagar complex. And the expansion
increased its capability and flexibility, enabling Jamnagar to refine lower­
grade crude oil and produce higher­value products.
Construction of the second refinery required over 200,000 engineering
and supplier documents, more than 1.9 million cubic yards (1.5 million
cubic meters) of concrete, some 13 million feet (4 million meters) of
piping, and 4,400 pieces of major equipment. The work site itself covered
an area larger than London.
70,000+ workers
Expansion makes Jamnagar the
world's largest oil­refining hub
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2. At peak construction, the project employed more than 70,000 workers. In
addition, Bechtel created a ˜virtual companyˉ involving some 2,800
engineers and other professionals in 19 offices around the worldÛperhaps
the most widely distributed workforce Bechtel has ever applied to a
project.
Connecting a worldwide team
The goal was to make it possible
for everybody to work together
as if they were in the same place,
and Bechtel ensured this
outcome through a purpose­built
communications network.
This network linked every
location and enabled
simultaneous collaborative work on engineering drawings and other
documents among people in multiple locations around the globe. Bechtel
also modified software to facilitate the immense amount of sharing and
record­keeping required.
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