Engineering & Design

Engineering & Design Business Group

In the Engineering Design Automation domain, Rolta enjoys a market share of over 85%, in India and is one of the major service providers, worldwide. By leveraging the strengths of its strategic joint venture with The Shaw Group, Rolta has now transformed itself to address the concept-to-completion needs of the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical & Refining, Conventional & Nuclear Power sectors and now provides complete Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCm) services. Rolta has moved up the value chain and has launched a unique engineering enterprise solution – Engineering Fusion^TM thereby strengthening the company's position as a world-class service provider, for Owner-Operators.

Engineering and Design Services

Rolta Engineering and Design Services (EDS) strategic business group, headquartered in Mumbai, India, provides integrated engineering, design, procurement, and construction management services for the power, process, infrastructure, and marine business lines. EDS also provides technology support for our customers for design automation tools such as PDS and the SmartPlant Suite of products.

Rolta EDS has extensive experience in Global Workshare to make your distributed project execution successful, including web-based collaboration tools for problem identification and resolution, and project action item tracking. We have extensive experience with the SmartPlant suite of tools to facilitate distributed collaborative engineering and design.

Power Business - We provide turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) services within India, and engineering and procurement (EP) services outside India, for nuclear, fossil, hydro and geothermal power stations. We also provide complete project management services.

Process Business - We provide engineering and procurement (EP) and project management services for refineries, chemical plants and pipeline customers around the world for upstream, downstream and offshore applications.
Infrastructure Business - We provide engineering and procurement (EP) and project management services for roads, bridges, buildings and other related infrastructure projects within India.

The consumption of petroleum products in India is expected to exceed 5 million barrels per day by 2025, roughly double the current demand. Internationally, demand for these products is expected to exceed 106 million barrels per day during the same period, a 22% increase over current demand. This will result in the need for significantly increased upstream production and downstream refining capacities in selected countries around the world.

The worldwide increase in hydrocarbon consumption and the resulting increase in crude oil prices over the last 2-3 years have created tremendous opportunities for optimization and debottlenecking of existing facilities, as well as the need for new “Greenfield” facilities. Among these opportunities, the world’s largest single train refinery and the world’s largest chemical complex are in the front-end design stages.

These and other mega-projects around the globe have highlighted the global shortage of experienced engineering and design resources. The man-hour budgets of such mega-projects are running into millions of hours. Increased environmental regulations such as compliance with the Kyoto Protocol and the need to reduce greenhouse gases and carbon emissions are also increasing the demand for qualified engineering and design services.

In the power sector, India currently has an electric capacity shortfall of about 15% at peak conditions. To meet this shortfall there is a need to add 20,000 megawatts to meet existing demand alone. In order to facilitate the growth rate of India’s GDP, 30,000 additional megawatts will be required over the next 5 years. The passage of the 123 Indo-American Nuclear Agreement and the admission of India into the Nuclear Suppliers Group will facilitate the Indian Government’s plan to add up 40,000 megawatts of new nuclear generating capacity, as well as the required nuclear fuel processing infrastructure by 2020. While it is expected that Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) will take on the major portion of this domestic nuclear expansion, there will be a need for subcontracted engineering and design services to support this projected growth expected to start in FY2009.

Rolta’s joint venture relationship with The Shaw Group, coupled with the signing of the Indo-American Nuclear Agreement has opened up the opportunity to use Indian resources to assist with the global expansion of nuclear power. Within the United States alone there are plans by various utilities to add 12 Westinghouse AP-1000 Reactors. South Africa plans to add up to 18 of the AP-1000 units and China has announced a plan to install up to 30 AP-1000 units by 2030. The Shaw Group, a parent company of the JV, Stone & Webster Rolta Ltd. (SWRL), holds a strategic stake in Toshiba-Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of nuclear reactors.

Planned investments in India’s infrastructure expected to be in the range of US$350 billion over the medium term are expected to create the need for equipment and services sourced from India and the rest of the globe. The rapid growth of international engineering projects coupled with the current global engineering and design resource constraints are expected to increase the emphasis on outsourcing of engineering and design services. Rolta is uniquely positioned to capitalize on these opportunities.

Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies are finding their workloads perhaps at the highest levels ever experienced. India has emerged as a destination of choice for engineering outsourcing, and as a consequence, design work for numerous projects across the globe are now being executed in India.

Owner-Operators (O/O) of plants have started to realize the benefits of using modern information technology tools for operations and maintenance of the plants as a result of maturing of the tools, as well as the changing economics. Owner-Operators are, therefore, seeking services to not only obtain digital models of their plants, but also to have their engineering design systems integrated with other enterprise-level systems. The benefits of integrating such enterprise wide systems across disparate databases and heterogeneous platforms are pushing up the demand for a comprehensive and integrated solution to address this need.

Rolta, with its years of domain experience and armed with the right kind of specialized knowledge tools and technology is uniquely positioned to address these requirements.

Rolta has acquired technology and gained experience from long term strategic business relationships to offer a broad range of Engineering, Design and Technology Services. Backed by years of experience and in depth domain knowledge, Rolta is now able to offer services such as process simulation, heat and material balance, preparation of process flow diagrams & equipment data sheets, heat exchanger design, vessel & mechanical equipment design, piping stress analysis, P&ID development, equipment layout, 3D design & modeling of all discipline commodities, complete civil/structural engineering including structural analysis, complete electrical engineering and design and complete instrumentation & control systems engineering and design.

In addition to the above capabilities, Rolta also provides full service procurement including supplier qualification, purchasing, source inspection, supply QA/QC, expediting, logistics and field warehousing.

The scope of full service project controls are also provided which include planning, scheduling and accounting, a world class design toolset on multiple platforms, a state of the art technical information management system for data and document control, a complete material management system for tagged and bulk materials - rounded out with construction management expertise which includes site management, sub-contractor management, site health and safety management, commissioning and startup – and Rolta provides a full service EPCm offering for the sectors it addresses.

Rolta’s involvement in detail engineering for ship design has helped provide high-value services to major shipyards in both, Europe and India.

In addition, SWRL has access to world class patented technology in the refining and petrochemical sectors, including Fluidised Catalytic Cracking, Deep Catalytic Cracking, Hydrotreating, Spent Caustic Treatment Systems, Refinery Off Gas (ROG) Treatment, Process and Energy Integration Schemes in the Refining sector and Ethylene, Ethyl Benzene, Styrene, Cumene, Ethylene Dichloride, Vinyl Chloride in Commodity Chemicals.

Over the years, Rolta has earned a dominant market share by providing path-breaking solutions to hundreds of customers - a virtual “Who’s Who” of leaders across diverse industries.

The large customer base includes 3M, ABB-Lyondell, ADNOC, Air Liquide, Alsthom Power, Aquatech, ARANCO, Babcock Borsig, BAPCO, BASF, Bateman, Bayer, Bechtel, BHEL, Boeing Rocketdyne, Boston Scientific, Burns & McDonnell, CEGELEC, Chevron Phillips, CNRL, Design Technology, Doosan, Dow Chemicals, DSP, EBM, Endurance, Engineers India Ltd, Entegee, Equate Petrochemicals, Essar, Ever Technologies, FEDO, Florida Power & Light, Flour Daniel, FMC-TI, Gardner Bender, GE GASCO, Ghesa Andalucia / Ghenova, GRSE Kolkata, Glynwed Pipe Systems, Hoechst Celanese, HPCL, IOCL, J A Freeman, Jacobs H&G, John Deere, Jubail, Kashima Oil, KNPC, Kvaerner, L&T Group, Lanzou Petrochina Linde, Litwin, Lurgi, Master Work Holding, Mazagaon Docks, MECON, Mikro Engineering BV, Mitsui, NanaClot, Nova Chemicals, NPCIL, NTPC, Oceanco, ONGC, PDIL, Petrobras, Petrofac, Pfizer, QAPCO, Q-Chem, Reliance, Rexroth, Rockwell Automation, Rolls Royce, Saipem, Samsung, Saudi ARAMCO, Shell, Siemens PG, Silicon Meadows, SNC Lavalin, SNC/AMO, Statoil, STX Europe, Sumitomo Chemicals, SUNCOR, Tata Chemicals, TCE, Technip, Tecnimont ICB, Thermax, Toyo Engineering, Triune, United Olefins, Valdel, Webasto, WGI, Woodward Governor, York International, Yunes Amre, etc.

Rolta provides full service EPCm solutions to Owner Operators and other EPC contractors throughout the entire value-chain, from concept-to-completion. Rolta’s industry leading use of design automation technology maximizes the availability of data throughout the project lifecycle and provides Owner Operators with maximum return on their investments.

The Company’s information and data security policies and procedures are ISO certified as are the Company’s full suite of world-class operating procedures. This provides clients with peace-of-mind that proprietary information is secure.

Rolta is able to exploit the in-house information and communication technology backbone and network management skills manifested in the Company’s other business lines, to make collaborative, distributed engineering teams a successful reality.

Rolta’s experience over the years at working with many offshore clients and overcoming cultural and language differences has resulted in web-based collaboration tools and procedures that make project execution easier for geographically distributed project teams.

Our expertise in exploiting design automation and optimization tools allows us to put together a state-of-theart package tailored to suit the specific needs of individual customers, but in a very cost-effective manner.

Rolta has the capabilities, infrastructure, resources, domain knowledge and financial capability to execute such projects from concept to commissioning and thereafter.

Rolta’s EPCm project reporting tools and the use of Oracle as the in-house ERP system provide clients with the assurance that time and costs are properly tracked and accounted for.

The Rolta engineering progress and performance measuring system provides clients with timely progress reporting to facilitate informed decision making by project management teams whether local or offshore.

These capabilities and offerings enable Rolta to provide comprehensive services from concept-to-completion placing Rolta at the upper end of the engineering and design value-chain.