Samsung Engineering was awarded a high-density polyethylene plant order contract for US$ 229 million  from OPaL (ONGC Petro Additions Limited), a subsidiary of India?s national oil company ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited). The plant will be built in the special economic zone of Dahej, located in the state of Gujarat and is set to produce 340,000 tonnes per year of high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Samsung Engineering will handle the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning on a lump-sum turn-key basis with the completion date set for August 2013.

Samsung Engineering?s executive vice president of the Hydrocarbon Business Kwangyong Chun said, "This is the 8th project in India to be awarded to Samsung Engineering. The new project can be credited towards the success of the on-going ONGC ethylene plant, with a capacity of 110,000 tonnes of ethylene per year. Currently, in the construction phase, the project has earned praise from both clients ONGC and OPaL."

Since entering the Indian market for the first time in 1997, the company has successfully completed a range of quality projects with top national companies such as Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Indian Oil Corp Ltd. In 2005, the linear alkyl benzene (LAB) project was completed in just 24 months, which proved the company?s project management excellence to the client, IOCL.

Samsung Engineering India was founded in 2006 for the purpose of being an independent Engineering center from Samsung Engineering headquarters in Korea. Since then, the company has employed over 600 Indian staff, from various disciplines such as engineering, procurement, construction, and project management.