Engineering and construction company Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has bagged a Rs. 2,035 crore order from the country's largest public sector unit ONGC's subsidiary Mangalore Petrochemical Limited (OMPL), the company unveiled on Monday. The order is to set up an aromatic complex in the Mangalore Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

L&T, in a press release, informed that the complex to be set up aims at producing paraxylene and benzene apart from by-products in the process including heavy aromatics, LPG and hydrogen. The unit will use naphtha as raw material.

The project, which includes nine different processes involving Naphtha Hydro-treating, continuous catalytic regeneration and platforming, has December, 2012 as the deadline for rolling out its first final products, the $8.5 billion company said in its statement. As per L&T, it would execute the unit as an engineering, procurement and construction contract.

The scope of the work assigned to L&T by ONGC ranges from basic design to pre-commissioning testing, commissioning and performance test run. As per ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals, the company would use the technology of UOP of the United States as a licensor. Post construction the unit would be the country's largest paraxylene unit.