BHEL bags 115 crore Oman order

By New Delhi: | 07 Oct 2004

New Delhi: Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has bagged a Rs 115-crore order in Oman for three compressor packages against stiff international competition, according to a company release.

The order has been received from Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) - a joint venture company of the government of Oman and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, Total and Partex. BHEL would be supplying three compressor packages to be installed at Yibal, located about 500 km from Muscat.

The compressors are to be delivered by March 2006. 

This is the second order for compressors received from PDO. The first compressor order, received in June for PDO's Lekhwair project, is presently under execution, the release added.