State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has bagged Rs 630 crore worth contract from a private power company, Abhijeet Projects, for setting up a 330 MW thermal plant at Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The contract includes design, engineering, manufacture and commissioning of Boilers, Steam Turbines and Turbo-Generators.
The company is also executing a contract for supply and installation of the main plant package (boilers, turbines and generators) for Abhijeet Projects' 1,080 MW coal-based Matrishri Usha Jayaswal Mega Power Plant, located at Latehar district of Jharkhand, near Ranchi.
BHEL has established facilities and a dedicated group of expert engineers for manufacture, refurbishment and up-gradation of onshore drilling rigs/rig equipment. For the above contract, the mechanical equipment will be manufactured by BHEL’s Hyderabad plant, while the electrics will be manufactured by the company’s Bhopal plant.
