Jamnagar Refinery exceeds Bechtel's previous complex projects

Mumbai: A refinery project in India that has a plot plan bigger than London and has to be completed within 36 months is worth crowing about.

Global construction and project management major, Bechtel Corporation, which is involved in the execution of Reliance Industries' Jamnagar refinery complex that rivals the US company's previous exceptional projects project rivals many of Bechtel's previous exceptional accomplishments, the Hoover Dam, or the Channel Tunnel, or even the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

The refinery complex is an expansion of the original refinery that Bechtel built some 10 years ago for RIL. Once completed, this new project will roughly double the size of the original Reliance Industries site, creating the world's largest refinery spread over a plot size bigger than that of London and a target completion time of less than 36 months.
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Bechtel is tackling this mega project using engineering resources dispersed around the globe, including a design and engineering team of 2,500 professionals in 10 design locations, 19 offices, and eight countries.

The project will employ more than 90,000 people during construction and call for the fabrication and installation of 109,170 metric tons of steel, about 5-million meters of varied size pipe, more than 4,000 pieces of major equipment, and more than 110,000 isometrics.

To successfully complete a project this vast in scope and widely distributed in so little time, Bechtel realised it would need unprecedented network connectivity, document access, and document control. The collaboration solution Bechtel selected for its 2D CAD file management was Bentley's ProjectWise.

Using ProjectWise to track and manage data, Bechtel has been able to facilitate the reuse of more than 25 per cent of the design and engineering information generated during construction of the original facilities. This has proved to be critically important in meeting the project's aggressive timescale.