1. Overview

Projects & Development India Ltd. (PDIL) is a Mini Ratna, Category-1 and an ISO 9001:2008 Certified premier Consultancy and Engineering CPSE. PDIL has been playing a pivotal role in the growth of Indian Fertilizer Industry. It has over six decades of experience and expertise in providing Design, Engineering and related project execution services from concept to commissioning of various Projects.   Apart from fertilizers, PDIL also provides services in other sectors like Oil & Gas, Refinery, Chemicals, Infrastructure, off site and Utilities. In addition, PDIL is an approved Third Party Inspection agency & undertakes works of Third Party Inspection and Non-Destructive Testings.The company is also engaged in the manufacturing of catalysts for the fertilizer and refinery industries.    The authorized share capital of the company is Rs. 60 crore and paid capital is Rs. 17.30 crore as on 31.03.2014.

2.     Vision/Mission

2.1     Vision

• To be a leader in engineering and project management consultancy organizations.

2.2     Mission

• To create and deliver integrated techno-commercial solution optimum in cost, quality and time to all customers.

• To pursue relentlessly world class quality in engineering consultancy and project management by imbibing best practices.

• To develop, upgrade and improve the manufacturing process of Catalyst and other products in line with the ever evolving need of customers.

3.0     Industrial /Business Operations

          a)       Financial  Performance:

                                                                                                                                 Rs. in Crore

Parameter	2012-13	2013-14(Prov.)
Total Income	83.58	69.02
Profit Before Tax (PBT)	15.33	(2.58)
Net Profit (PAT)	10.71	(2.58)
Dividend	3.81	-
Net Worth	137.11	134.53

 

b)       Physical  Performance (Catalyst division)

Product	Production Capacity	Production Performance
		2012-13	2013-14
Catalyst	1260 MT	185 MT	212 MT

 

4.0     Performance Highlights

 4.1     Services Offered

  4.1.1  Pre-Project Services

Market Demand Study Reports, Techno-Economic Feasibility Studies, Detailed Project Reports, Site Selection, Risk Analysis, EIA Studies, etc.

4.1.2  Project Services

a)       Project Implementation Services - Engineering, Procurement & Construction Management (EPCM) Services - Design, Detailed Engineering, Procurement Assistance, Warehouse Management, Inspection & Expediting, Project Management, Construction   Supervision, Commissioning and Performance Guarantee Tests.

b)       Project Management Consultancy (PMC) Services

c)       Lumpsum Turnkey (LSTK) Projects

4.1.3  Other Specialized Services

Revamp/ Retrofit/ De-bottlenecking Studies, Health Study & End-to-End Survey, Environmental Engineering, Energy Audit/ Safety Audit, PDS–3 D Piping Model, Process Simulation and Optimization, Hazop Study, Due Diligence Assignments, etc.

4.1.4  Third Party Inspection and Non Destructive Testing (NDT) Services including Project & Third Party Inspection (Shop & Field Inspection) and NDT Services for plants in various industrial sectors.

4.2     Projects Executed / Under Execution

4.2.1  Fertilizer Sector

PDIL has been playing a pivotal role in the development of Fertilizer industries in India. It is ready to take up  new challenges in executing the Brown field, Green field, Revamp and Expansion Projects of many fertilizer units in the country.

 During the year 2012-13 & 2013-14,  the major orders secured by PDIL are :-

Providing PMC Services (Post award of LSTK Contract) for setting up of a gas based Greenfield 2200MTPD Ammonia and 3850 MTPD Urea plant along with necessary off site & utilities at Gabon for M/s Gabon Fertilizer Company S.A., Gabon.

Detailed Engineering, Procurement Assistance and construction supervision for utilities for proposed expansion project at Port Harcourt, Nigeria for M/s Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals limited (IEPL), Nigeria.

• PMC for Part-I for Early works of NFCL Kakinada Project-3 for NFCL, Hyderabad.

• Consultancy services for the proposed JV Ammonia-Urea fertilizer project to be executed on LSTK basis at Ghana for RCF, Mumbai.

• Preparation of ITB document & Evaluation of bids for selection of LSTK contractor and preparation of DPR for Brownfield Ammonia-Urea plant at Bharuch for GNFC, Bharuch.

• Providing PMC services during early work phase for selection of EPC contractor for 2300 MTPD Ammonia and 4000 MTPD Urea plant at Port Harcourt, Nigeria for IEPL, Nigeria.

• Preparation of ITB document & evaluation of bids for selection of LSTK Contractor for Hazira Fertilizer Project Phase-II for KRIBHCO, Hazira.

• LSTK tender services for development of GSFC's project at Dahej for GSFC, Dahej.

• Engineering Consultancy services for Ammonia storage tank and associated facilities for KSFL, Noida.

• Consultancy services for lining up of LSTK contract for installation of Purge Gas Recovery etc for NFL,Vijaipur.

• Consultancy services for LSTK selection for SSP project at NFL panipat.

• Detail Engineering Design, preparation of tender documents and Project Management services for proposed Phospho Gypsum stack at IFFCO Pardeep.

• Project cost estimation for super revamp project of  Casale group.

• Technical Evaluation of LSTK bid for Gas based Greenfield 2200 MTPD Ammonia & 3850 MTPD Urea etc for Gabon Fertilizer company.

• Engineering services for FCW system to prevent any potential failures and  improving the reliability of FCW system for OMIFCO.

• Feasibility Study for Ammonia, TAN/CAN Project at Algeria for Joint Venture of ASMIDAL Group and Qatar Petroleum International – Recently awarded.

Projects executed / under execution

During the year, the company successfully completed the jobs of PMC services for Ammonia Syn Gas Generation plant of GNFC,Bharuch, Detailed Engineering services for Thal Ammonia Revamp Project of RCF, Hazira Revamp of Ammonia-Urea complex for KRIBHCO, Energy Saving & Capacity Enhancement Projects of NFL, Vijaipur, Methanol Plant at GSFC, etc. Apart from the above, other major jobs like PMC services for Ammonia Urea Complex at Algeria, Detailed Engineering services for Ammonia Plant of Matix Fertilizers, PMC services for Feedstock Changeover Project of NFL’s three plants at Panipat, Bathinda & Nangal are under completion stage. Further, assignments of Detailed Engineering services for Thal Urea Revamp Project of RCF and Engineering Consultancy Services for Ammonia plant Feedstock Conversion Project from Naphtha to CNG for MFL, Chennai are also progressing well.

4.2.2  Oil & Gas and Refinery Sector

PDIL has established its credentials  in the Oil and Gas sector and has shown its presence by securing jobs from almost all the prestigious public sector undertakings in the Oil and Gas sector.

Jobs Secured 

PDIL secured a major assignment of Carrying out BDEP study and providing PMC services for installation of mounded bullets for M/s Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Chennai.

Apart from this, PDIL also bagged other orders like Preparation of DFR, EIA, RRA for LPG pipeline from SHV to Tuticorin LPG plant for BPCL, Noida, Providing Design/ detailed engineering services for construction of new apparatus field structure at LPG Terminal Kandla for M/s Fabtech Projects & Engineers Pvt Ltd, Pune, etc.

Projects executed / under execution

During the year, the company successfully completed the job of providing Detailed Engineering services for Ammonium Sulphate plant at Rourkela for RSP, Rourkela.Other major jobs of PMC services for Hydrogen Generation plant of CPCL, Manali Refinery and H2-N2 plant on BOO basis of IOCL at Paradeep Refinery are under completion stage.  PMC for Automation of retail outlets of M/s HPCL & IOCL are being continuously done.Apart from this, jobs of providing Engineering Consultancy services for tank farm consisting of 7 nos H3PO4 tank and for raw water pumping facilities for JIFCO's Fertilizer complex at Eshidiya Jordan are also progressing well.

4.2.3  Chemical Sector 

PDIL has undertaken many projects in Chemical sector such as Methanol Plant, Hydrogen Plant, Methyl Amines, Sulphuric Acid, Phosphoric Acid, Nitric Acid, Sodium Nitrite/Nitrate, Ammonium Nitrate and Ammonium Bi-Carbonate. PDIL has provided consultancy services to GAIL for GSU & GPU modification job at their Pata Petrochemical Plant and Detailed Engineering Services to GSFC, Baroda for Methanol Plant. M/s Shriram EPC has associated PDIL for providing Basic Design Engineering for Ammonium Sulphate Plant and Ammonia Liquor Treatment Plant of Rourkela Steel Plant at Rourkela.

4.2.4  Infrastructure sector

PDIL has established credentials in infrastructure sector also and has been providing PMC Services/ Review Consultancy services for Housing projects of the Ministry of Defence.

4.2.5  off site and Utilities 

PDIL has designed, engineered, tendered and procured many off site and Utilities packages for a large number of clients. These include DM Water Plants, Effluent Treatment Plants, Captive Power Plants, Material handling Plants, and Atmospheric Ammonia Storage and Handling facilities.

4.2.6    Assignments Abroad

PDIL has executed many prestigious projects in Fertlizer sector abroad like EPCM services for M/s Burrup Fertilizers Projects Ltd, Australia, PMC services for M/s Algeria Oman Fertlizer Project, Algeria etc.   PDIL is also executing the job of providing EPCM services for tank farm and raw water pumping house for M/s JIIFCO, Jordan. During the year , PDIL made an excellent breakthrough in securing assignments abroad. PDIL secured a prestigious job of Providing PMC Services for a gas based Greenfield 2200 MTPD Ammonia and 3850 MTPD Urea plant along with necessary off site & utilities at Gabon for M/s Gabon Fertilizer Company S.A., Gabon. PDIL also bagged assignments from IEPL, Nigeria for providing Detailed Engineering services for off site/Utilities and PMC services during Early Work for Fertilizer Expansion Project at Port Harcourt, Nigeria.Apart from these, several other assignments viz. carrying out a study for evaluating the energy consumption of Ammonia and Urea plants for OMIFCO, Oman, rendering Consultancy Services for existing problems in Ammonia - Urea Plant for M/s Notore, Nigeria and preparation of Feasibility Reports for GTSP plant & for DAP/NPKS plant in Tanzania for M/s Minjingu Mines & Fertilizers Ltd, Tanzania were also secured by PDIL.

4.2.7  Third Party Inspection & NDT Services

PDIL is a recognized Third Party Inspection Agency for Inspection & Quality Assurance Services and undertakes TPI Services for many  organizations like IOCL, RINL/VSP, BHEL, BPCL, HPCL, NLC, NDMC, PWD, State PHEDs, ONGC, DTL etc. It provides services for Shop & Field Inspection of Equipment & Machinery, Electricals, Instruments, Electrical Safety Audit Inspections, Terminal Automation System of Oil Terminals, Depots & Retail outlets and Work Assessment & Evaluation of Vendors. It provides NDT services for plants in various sectors like Fertilizer, Chemical, Refineries, Oil & Gas, Cross Country pipeline etc. PDIL specialized NDT services include Automatic Ultrasonic scanning, Infra-Red Thermo-Vision/imaging, Eddy current testing, Vibration signature analysis etc. PDIL undertakes Inspection, statutory testing & safety Certification of storage tanks for petroleum products as well as ammonia. PDIL is the Rate Contract holder for TPT services for NLC and RINL. PDIL is also secured job for PMC services for implementation of MB Lal committee recommendations at 36 locations of HPCL and also the job of Inspection of High mast signages at 1500 locations of IOCL.

4.2.8  Technical Audit

Department of Fertilizers (DoF) continued to engage PDIL for  Techno-commercial Audit of SSP Plants  located throughout India. The Audits are undertaken and the  reports with TAC observations and comments are submitted to DoF on a continuous basis.

4.2.9  Manufacturing of Catalysts

PDIL’s Catalysts Division located at Sindri (Jharkhand) manufactures and supplies a wide range of commercially proven catalysts used in Ammonia Plants and other Industries. Catalysts manufactured by PDIL are  Secondary Reforming, Iron-Chromia, High Temperature CO Shift, Copper Promoted High Temperature Shift, Conventional Low Temperature Shift, High Copper Low Temperature Shift, Methanation & Super Methanation, De-Sulphurization, and Vanadium Pentoxide.

PDIL’s Catalysts are in use in almost all the old and new generation Ammonia Plants in India in the Public, Cooperative and Private Sector.  Besides Fertilizer Plants, PDIL’s Catalysts are used in Refineries also. 

PDIL’s Vanadium Pentoxide Catalysts have been supplied to many Sulphuric Acid Plants in India as well as abroad.

5.0     In house strengths of PDIL

5.1     IT & Other Infrastructure Facilities

PDIL has two full fledged Design Engineering Centers situated at the prime locations in the Country at NOIDA (NCR-New Delhi) & Baroda. Further, PDIL has its catalyst manufacturing unit at Sindri (Jharkhand). Apart from this, PDIL has its Inspection offices at various locations throughout India viz. Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai,Vizag, Bangalore & Hyderabad.

PDIL’s both the design engineering centers are equipped with State-of-the-Art computer and software facilities such as AutoCAD 2012, Microstation, Plant Design System (PDS), Smart Plant Electrical, Smart Plant Instrumentation, Smart Plant P&ID, Frame Work Plus, Smart Plant Review, CAESAR II, PV Elite, Mocroprotal, STAAD Pro,  Aspen Plus, Syner GEE Gas, ASD Pipe Router, ASD Pipe Support Optimizer,  PHA-Pro, Safeti Micro, Conval, ETAP, Primavera, MS Project and a large no. of state of the art, work specific software for carrying out design engineering work. PDIL is a member of Heat Transfer Research INC., U.S.A. giving it the right to use Xchanger Suite of Software.

          All the offices of PDIL are connected through VPN.

 5.2     ERP Project

With implementation of SAP ERP, PDIL has been able to integrate its activities on a single platform.  Go live of SAP was done on February 8, 2011. 

5.3     DMS Project

PDIL has implemented “Documentum” of EMC² as its Electronic Document Management System. This will further help PDIL to preserve all its documents in electronic form. 

6.0     Human Resources

PDIL is having highly competent and experienced technical manpower. At present, PDIL is having 481 employees of various disciplines such as Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil & Structural Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Science & Information Technology, etc. from reputed Engineering Institutes. With the vast experience & technical expertise of these resources, PDIL is having sufficient skilled manpower to execute the number of mega projects simultaneously.

Employment to SC/ST/OBC/ PH persons

In line with Government Guidelines issued from time to time, your company continues to extend required number of facilities to SC/ST/OBC employees.

	Manpower as on 31.03.2014  (Number of Employees belonging to)
Group	Total Employees	SC	ST	Ex-Service	PH	OBC
A	383	50	18	-	-	66
B	24	5	-	-	-	5
C	19	4	1	-	-	2
D	-	-	-	-	-	-
On contract	39	2	-	-	-	5
Total	465	61	19	-	-	78

 

Complaints/Grievances redressal mechanism is in place. Regarding implementation of National Policy for Persons with Disabilities, for easy/ hassle free mobility of employee with disability, ramp has been constructed and in respect of welfare, development and empowerment of women and for mainstreaming gender issues, there is complete equality gender in PDIL.   

7.0     Corporate Social Responsibility

PDIL has been pursuing CSR activities as per policy duly approved by the Board as well as directives issued by Govt. of India from time to time. The objective of CSR policy is to alleviate the social imbalances and helping the community in which it operates. Accordingly, PDIL Board has approved the detailed CSR policy in the year 2012 on the basis of guidelines issued by DPE, which was further modified on lines with revised DPE guidelines. The Company has been doing CSR activities towards education of slum children, Education of under privileged children, Free health checkups camps, Skill/Development/Capacity building of under privileged marginalized women, Socio Economic Empowerment SC/ST students etc. Projects valued  ` 51.86 Lakhs were approved under CSR, during the year 2012-13.

8.     MOU with DoF

8.1   Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

PDIL has got “Excellent” MOU rating for the year 2011-12. The company has been receiving ‘Excellent’ rating since the first year of its signing MOU in 2006-07.  For the year 2012-13, the company has  achieved the ‘ Good’ rating in view of the less business secured due to lack of  investments    in Fertilizer Sector. The company is hoping for a better order book position and performance subject to take off of the investment proposals of fertilizer companies.

8.2     MoU Awards

PDIL has won prestigious MoU Excellence Award for 2007-08 under the category of “Turnaround CPSE”, which was conferred by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh on 15.10.2009. PDIL won prestigious MoU Excellence Award for 2008-09 for top performing CPSE’s in the Consultancy Sector, which was conferred by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh on 15.12.2010.

9.     Other Development

9.1   R&D Activities

9.1.1  DoF Sponsored Projects

a) Use of Spent LTS Catalyst as Raw Material for the preparation of fresh LTS Catalyst.   Project is in progress and is expected to be finished by end of September, 2014.

b) Use of Spent Nickel Catalyst as Raw Material for the preparation of fresh Nickel Catalyst.   Project is under progress.

c) Development of Chlorine Guard Catalyst for Protection of LTS Catalyst.   Project has completed and Final Report submitted to DoF in March, 2014.

9.2  SSP Activities

SSP Laboratory located in Noida has been accredited by NABEL for three years with effect from 24.02.2014 in accordance with ISO 17025-2005 in the discipline of Chemical Testing.