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Essar Group sees huge growth potential in its IT firm Black Box with boom in artificial intelligence (AI) technology driving demand for new data centres and managed services across the globe, a top official of the multinational conglomerate said. In an exclusive interview with PTI, Prashant Ruia, director of Essar Capital, which manages the group's portfolio of investment, expressed confidence in the sector. "This is a company which can see tremendous growth, because the kind of growth taking place in data centres and managed services globally is exponential," he said. Black Box, listed on the Indian stock exchanges, has operations spread across 35 countries, but its major business comes from the US. "It's obviously listed in India, but it's primarily headquartered, main operations are in the US. We currently do about USD 800 million of revenue in Black Box... about 75 per cent of the market for us is the US. We have a very large operation headquartered in Dallas, we have close to
Essar Oil UK Limited (EOUK) on Friday said it has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd as technology provider for the development of the required basic engineering design package for its new EET Industrial Carbon Capture facility based at Stanlow, UK. This is a leading use of carbon capture technology, associated with a fluid catalytic cracker within refineries globally. "Following a detailed due diligence process, technology provider MHI has been selected for the carbon dioxide capture process section of the plant. Once captured, the carbon dioxide will be permanently sequestered into depleted gas fields under the sea in Liverpool Bay, as part of the HyNet cluster in the North West of England," the company said in a statement. Essar had announced the proposed construction of the EET Industrial Carbon Capture plant at the Stanlow Refinery in November 2022. Participating in the Cluster Sequencing Track One Expansion process, the company plans for the facility to be operational i
Essar Oil UK arm Vertex Hydrogen on Monday announced its plan to switch to a new brand identity, EET Hydrogen as it looks to become a major pillar in the group's energy transition. This change is a natural progression in the development of the company from an early-stage idea into the leading hydrogen production project in the UK, a statement said. "Vertex Hydrogen is announcing that it is changing its brand to EET Hydrogen and that it intends to move from being a subsidiary of Essar Oil UK (EOUK) to a sister company of EOUK and become a standalone pillar of the Essar Energy Transition (EET) portfolio," it stated. The EET Hydrogen will provide a platform for growth with an ambition to deliver around 4GW of low-carbon hydrogen by 2030, around 40 per cent of the UK Government's national target. This hydrogen will enable businesses to switch from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy, securing and growing vital industries and jobs and unlocking billions of pounds of investment. Essar gro
Essar Oil (UK) Ltd, the leading integrated downstream energy company, on Monday said it has signed an agreement with Essex-based storer of refining petroleum products Oikos Storage Ltd to expand its operations into London and the South East of England. The firm owns UK's Stanlow oil refinery and a network of petrol stations in the country. "Under the agreement, Essar will store and distribute middle distillate fuels at Oikos' Canvey Island facility to serve the Thames region. Furthermore, the agreement will leverage Oikos' connectivity to the United Kingdom Oil Pipeline (UKOP) system to supply the Northampton and Midlands regions," the company said in a statement. Currently, diesel and jet fuels are pumped from the Stanlow refinery to the Midlands and Northampton regions along the UKOP system. "As a result of this agreement, Essar's imports of middle distillates will be pumped from Oikos to Northampton and the Midlands regions, providing significant supply resilience and increasing
Essar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Ltd (EOGEPL), India's leading pioneering unconventional hydrocarbon player, on Thursday announced its collaboration with Sensia for the digitalisation of oil and gas field operations to enhance operational efficiencies. "This strategic partnership aims to unify measurement systems, optimise decision-making and enable remote control of critical parameters across EOGEPL's wells, facilities and customer interface," it said in a statement. EOGEPL, which produces gas from coal seams (called coal-bed methane), will deploy Sensia's Avalon digital platform interface. "Sensia's Avalon platform offers a comprehensive interface that simplifies the capture, analysis and digitisation of well-related activities, facility-related activities and customer end operations," it said. The platform enables real-time data acquisition of essential parameters, such as mechanical, electrical, gas and water flow, pressure, and power backup device data, among other