Engineers India Limited (EIL) is an Indian
central public sector undertaking under the
ownership
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of
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas,
Government of India
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. It is under the
ownership
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of
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas,
Government of India
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. 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
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Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...
, Infrastructure, Water and Waste Water Management and Fertilizers.
EIL is headquartered at Bhikaji Cama Place,
New Delhi
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. EIL also has an R&D complex at
Gurugram, a branch office at
Mumbai
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, regional offices at
Kolkata
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,
Chennai
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,
Vadodara
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, inspection offices at all major equipment manufacturing locations in India and overseas offices in
London
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(
England
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), Milan (
Italy
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), Shanghai (China),
Abu Dhabi
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...
(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
* 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 projects including 10 Greenfield Refineries
* 12 mega
Petrochemical
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complexes
* 11
Fertilizer
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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
* Off ...
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
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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
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* Health Care
*
Drinking Water
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/Sanitation
* Rural Electrification
* Women Empowerment
* Upliftment of underprivileged
*
Community Development
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* Vocational Training/Skill Centres
References
External links
Official website
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