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Engineers India Limited (EIL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the
ownership Ownership is the state or fact of legal possession and control over property, which may be any asset, tangible or intangible. Ownership can involve multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different ...
of
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG) is a ministry of the government of India responsible for the exploration, production, refining, distribution, marketing, import, export, and conservation of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum ...
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Government of India The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, c ...
. It is under the
ownership Ownership is the state or fact of legal possession and control over property, which may be any asset, tangible or intangible. Ownership can involve multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different ...
of
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG) is a ministry of the government of India responsible for the exploration, production, refining, distribution, marketing, import, export, and conservation of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum ...
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Government of India The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, c ...
. It was set up in 1965 with the mandate of providing indigenous technology solutions across the hydrocarbon projects. Over the years, it has also diversified into synergic sectors like non-ferrous
Metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...
, Infrastructure, Water and Waste Water Management and Fertilizers. EIL is headquartered at Bhikaji Cama Place,
New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House ...
. EIL also has an R&D complex at
Gurugram Gurgaon (pronunciation: ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...
, a branch office at
Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
, regional offices at
Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
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Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
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Vadodara Vadodara (), also known as Baroda, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River, from the state capital ...
, inspection offices at all major equipment manufacturing locations in India and overseas offices in
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), Milan (
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), Shanghai (China),
Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area. ...
(UAE). EIL has a wholly-owned subsidiary Certification Engineers International Limited (CEIL). It has set up a joint venture company namely Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited (RFCL) for enhancing the presence in fertilizers sector. As of March 2021, EIL has more than 2400 engineers & professionals in its employee base of over 2800 employees. Navratna status was accorded by Government of India in 2014.


History

EIL was incorporated on March 15, 1965, as a private limited company under the name Engineers India Private Limited pursuant to a memorandum of agreement dated June 27, 1964 between the Government of India and Bechtel International Corporation. In May 1967, EIL became a wholly-owned Government of India (GoI) enterprise. The following table illustrates the major events in the history of the company. * 1970 - Commenced first international assignment * 1972 - Commenced work in the metallurgy segment * 1978 - Commenced work in onshore oil and gas processing segment * 1989 - Set up its own Research and Development centre at
Gurugram Gurgaon (pronunciation: ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...
* 1994 - Subsidiary, Certification Engineers International Limited was set up * 1997 - Listing on the BSE and NSE; Mini Ratna status accorded by Government of India * 2006 - Commenced work in underground crude oil storages * 2010 - Further Public Offer of 10% of its paid-up equity share capital * 2011-16 - Overseas expansion in Fertilizer , Largest overseas order from Nigeria , 20% stake offloaded by GoI (FPO/OFS) in 2016


Businesses

The major business areas wherein EIL provides its engineering consultancy services are: * Petroleum Refining * Petrochemicals, Chemicals & Fertilizers * Crude, Petroleum products & Gas Pipelines * Onshore & Offshore Oil & Gas * Terminals & Storage * Underground crude oil storages * Mining & Metallurgy * Infrastructure & Urban Development EIL has also ventured into various unconventional energy resource projects like solar, 2G ethanol, bio-fuel etc.


Services

EIL provides a wide range of engineering consultancy and EPC services to its clients: * Process Design * Engineering * Supply Chain Management * Project Management * Construction Management * Specialized services like Heat & Mass Transfer, Plant Operation & Safety Management, Specialist Materials & Maintenance services, Environment Engineering


Track Record

EIL has executed over 7000 assignments including 500 major projects valued over US$200 Billion. EIL's project portfolio consists of: *  89
Refinery A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value. Types of refineries Different types of refineries ...
projects including 10 Greenfield Refineries * 12 mega
Petrochemical Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable sou ...
complexes * 11
Fertilizer A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients. Fertilizers may be distinct from ...
Plants * 44 Oil and Gas processing projects * 213
Offshore platforms Offshore may refer to: Science and technology * Offshore (hydrocarbons) * Offshore construction, construction out at sea * Offshore drilling, discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater through drilling a well * Of ...
including 40 process platforms   * 50
Pipeline Pipeline may refer to: Electronics, computers and computing * Pipeline (computing), a chain of data-processing stages or a CPU optimization found on ** Instruction pipelining, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a s ...
projects   * 33 Mining & Metallurgy Projects * 14
Port A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Ham ...
s, storage & terminals projects * Over 40 infrastructure projects including airports, highways, flyovers, bridges, water and sewer management, as well as energy-efficient intelligent buildings * 24 turnkey projects.


Research & Development

EIL is a technology driven organization which invests in Research and Technology in the Hydrocarbons and Renewable Energy Sectors. The company's research and development center in Gurugram is undertaking technology development both in-house and in collaboration with other organizations like IOCL-R&D, BPCL-R&D, IIP, CHT, HPCL, CPCL, NRL etc. EIL has developed more than 35 process technologies and the technology portfolio consists of various technologies for petroleum refining, oil and gas processing and aromatics. The Company holds 35 live patents and has 32 pending patent applications relating to various process technologies.


Corporate Social Responsibility

EIL operates its business in a socially responsible way, by taking into consideration the wider interests of the community and the environment, with a vision of promoting sustainable development. Some of EIL's core CSR Focus areas are as follows: *
Education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Va ...
* Health Care *
Drinking Water Drinking water is water that is used in drink or food preparation; potable water is water that is safe to be used as drinking water. The amount of drinking water required to maintain good health varies, and depends on physical activity level, a ...
/Sanitation * Rural Electrification * Women Empowerment * Upliftment of underprivileged *
Community Development The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists ...
* Vocational Training/Skill Centres


References


External links


Official website
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