KBR awarded Advanced Automation Systems contracts for HURL Ammonia Plant in India
Published on : Wednesday 27-11-2019
Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide turnkey OTS and APC systems and associated services for the HURL-G project.
Houston, November 25, 2019 – KBR announced recently that it has been awarded two contracts by Toyo Engineering Corporation for the supply of an Operator Training Simulator (OTS) and an Advanced Process Control (APC) system for the new single-stream 2200 MTPD ammonia plant being built for Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited (HURL) in Gorakhpur, in the State of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide turnkey OTS and APC systems and associated services for the HURL-G project. The deliverables include provision of all hardware, software, associated engineering services, upgrades and multi-year maintenance and support. The work is expected to be performed over three years by KBR's Advanced Automations teams in Houston, USA and Pune, India.
"This latest ammonia OTS and APC award is a validation of KBR's expertise in providing innovative advanced automation and digital solutions to our clients," said Doug Kelly, President, KBR Technology Solutions. "These solutions form the vital link between our industry-leading process designs and the potential offered by digitalisation for best-in-class operations and performance."
Since developing the world's first general-purpose process flowsheet simulator in the early 1960s, KBR has remained at the forefront of simulation and advanced process control for almost 60 years. The models developed over the years continue to maximise the profitability of ammonia plants globally.
KBR is a global provider of differentiated professional services and technologies across the asset and program lifecycle within the Government Solutions and Energy sectors. KBR employs approximately 38,000 people worldwide (including our joint ventures), with customers in more than 80 countries, and operations in 40 countries, across three synergistic global businesses.