
Engineers India in talks to develop Guyana's first oil refinery, says CMD Vartika Shukla
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Engineers India Ltd (EIL) is in talks with the government of Guyana to help build its first oil refinery, CMD Vartika Shukla said in an interview, a step that could deepen energy ties between India and the South American country. EIL plans to offer project management and consultancy services for the proposed refinery.
Guyana had first come up with a tender for a refinery with a capacity of 30,000 barrels per day. However, the plan was shelved because the capacity was found to be unviable. “The current consideration of the authorities is to develop a refinery of 1.5 million-2 million tonne per annum (mtpa) capacity," an Indian government official said, requesting anonymity.
Constructing a 1.5mtpa refinery would cost about ₹7,000 crore, with the PMC cost 2% of the overall capital expenditure. State-run EIL has played a key role in developing refineries globally, including in Mongolia and Nigeria, and recently won a contract to expand Africa’s largest refinery—Dangote in Nigeria. “We are aware they (Guyana) put out a tender for investment with the refinery… We would be keen to do a PMC for that, given our expertise.
Our team is there… We are in touch with the leadership in Guyana for favourably looking at us," Shukla said. “We will make sure that we are there in their reckoning in a very serious manner… that they take us on board, considering the excellent work that we’ve helped them with." EIL’s proposed project management and consultant (PMC) role for the planned refinery help will enhance India’s broader energy ties with Guyana, which has reserves of over 11 billion barrels of oil equivalent, considered the most significant global oil discovery of the past decade. India, the
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