L&T, BCGCL and Casale advance India’s first coal to nitrates complex

L&T Energy Hydrocarbon Onshore has won a “significant” EPC contract from Bharat Coal Gasification and Chemicals Ltd (BCGCL) for a coal to ammonium nitrate complex in Odisha, India, with Casale now confirming its role as ammonia technology provider on the same project. L&T will deliver the lump sum turnkey Package 3 ammonia synthesis unit, while Casale says it will supply technology and proprietary equipment for a 920 t/d ammonia synthesis loop at the heart of what it describes as India’s first coal gasification based nitrates complex.

Coal based ammonia at the core of a new value chain