EIL Q2 awards reach Rs 6,914.7 crore on Kenya mandate

EIL secured Rs 6,914.7 crore of standalone business in Q2 FY26-27, led by a Rs 4,408.6 crore Kenya refinery and petrochemical mandate from Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals FZE. The awards lifted EIL’s order book to Rs 20,420.5 crore as of September 2026 from Rs 14,424.2 crore in June 2026.

How much business did EIL secure in Q2 FY26-27?

EIL secured Rs 6,914.7 crore in Q2 FY26-27, representing Rs 6,914.7 crore of the Rs 7,428.3 crore secured in H1 FY26-27. This was substantially above Rs 513.6 crore in Q1 FY26-27 and Rs 1,429.2 crore in Q1 FY25-26. The presentation reports the figures on a standalone basis and separates the awards between consultancy and turnkey work.

Consultancy accounted for Rs 5,394.7 crore, or 78%, of Q2 business secured, while turnkey accounted for Rs 1,520 crore, or 22%. Overseas consultancy contributed Rs 5,193.3 crore, compared with Rs 201.4 crore of domestic consultancy. EIL’s quarterly mix chart shows overseas work at 95% of consultancy awards and domestic work at 5%.

Which order drove EIL’s Q2 FY26-27 awards?

EIL’s largest Q2 FY26-27 order was a Rs 4,408.6 crore contract from Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals FZE for project management consultancy and engineering, procurement and construction management services. The scope is a greenfield refinery and petrochemical plant at Mokowe, Kenya. The award date was September 2026 and the listed completion date is March 2031.

The Kenya contract represented about two-thirds of EIL’s Rs 6,914.7 crore Q2 intake and formed part of Rs 5,193.3 crore in overseas consultancy awards. Other disclosed overseas awards included Rs 482 crore from ADNOC Offshore for project management consultancy services for Umm Shaif Gas Cap Phase 1 and SPB, awarded in July 2026 and scheduled for January 2030 completion.

Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals FZE also awarded EIL a Rs 287.2 crore change order for project management consultancy and engineering, procurement and construction management services for the DPRP Expansion Project Nigeria, covering a 400 kilotonnes per annum linear alkyl benzene complex. The order was awarded in July 2026, with completion listed for January 2029.

What domestic and turnkey contracts did EIL disclose?

EIL disclosed a Rs 1,090 crore project management consultancy assignment from Powergrid Teleservices Ltd for establishing a commercial data centre in Chennai. The order was awarded in July 2026 and has a listed completion date of March 2029. It was the largest domestic contract included in EIL’s Q2 salient-orders list.

The domestic list also included a Rs 349.6 crore change order from the Intelligence Bureau for construction of a multi-storied integrated office and data-centre complex, awarded in September 2026 and scheduled for December 2029 completion. Oil India Limited awarded Rs 98.5 crore for engineering, procurement and construction management of a 5 million metric standard cubic metres per day integrated gas compressor station at Dulanjan, with completion listed for January 2029.

Other disclosed domestic work comprised Rs 80.3 crore from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation for a convention-centre change order at Goa, Rs 43.6 crore from Indian Oil Corporation Limited for coke-drum replacement at Panipat Refinery and Petrochemical Complex, and Rs 11.2 crore from Airports Authority of India for independent-engineer services at IGI Airport, New Delhi. EIL lists their respective completion dates as July 2026, December 2026 and August 2029.

How did EIL’s order book change after the Q2 awards?

EIL’s standalone order book reached Rs 20,420.5 crore as of September 2026, an increase of Rs 5,996.3 crore from Rs 14,424.2 crore as of June 2026. It was also Rs 7,289.4 crore above the Rs 13,131.1 crore reported as of September 2025. Consultancy represented Rs 15,312 crore of the September 2026 total, while turnkey represented Rs 5,108.5 crore.

Overseas consultancy was the main contributor to the sequential order-book increase. Its order book rose to Rs 11,417.6 crore in September 2026 from Rs 6,451.8 crore in June 2026, an increase of Rs 4,965.8 crore. Domestic consultancy fell to Rs 3,894.4 crore from Rs 4,046.3 crore, while turnkey increased to Rs 5,108.5 crore from Rs 3,926.1 crore.

EIL’s September 2026 order book was 75% consultancy and 25% turnkey, compared with 73% consultancy and 27% turnkey in June 2026. Within consultancy backlog, overseas work was 56% and domestic work was 44%. This differed from Q2 intake, where overseas work represented 95% of consultancy awards.

How does Q2 FY26-27 compare with earlier EIL award periods?

EIL’s Rs 6,914.7 crore Q2 FY26-27 intake exceeded each quarterly total shown for FY25-26. The highest FY25-26 quarter was Q4 at Rs 3,711.3 crore, while Q2 FY25-26 recorded Rs 2,334.9 crore. Overseas consultancy rose to Rs 5,193.3 crore in Q2 FY26-27 from Rs 1,108.5 crore in Q2 FY25-26.

Domestic consultancy moved in the other direction, declining to Rs 201.4 crore in Q2 FY26-27 from Rs 281.9 crore in Q2 FY25-26. Turnkey business increased to Rs 1,520 crore from Rs 944.5 crore over the same comparison. The figures show that both the overseas consultancy mandate and higher turnkey intake contributed to the Q2 increase.

EIL secured Rs 7,978.1 crore of total business in FY25-26, compared with Rs 8,214.1 crore in FY24-25. Within FY25-26, overseas consultancy accounted for Rs 4,929.7 crore. EIL’s Rs 5,481.9 crore of overseas consultancy secured in H1 FY26-27 therefore exceeded the full FY25-26 overseas consultancy amount disclosed in the presentation.

Conclusion

EIL’s Q2 FY26-27 intake was led by the Rs 4,408.6 crore Kenya refinery and petrochemical assignment, while the Rs 482 crore ADNOC Offshore order and domestic data-centre-related contracts added to the disclosed awards. The resulting Rs 20,420.5 crore order book had a 75% consultancy share, with overseas consultancy at Rs 11,417.6 crore.

The next disclosed milestones are execution dates rather than financial targets. EIL lists March 2031 for the Kenya assignment, January 2030 for the ADNOC Offshore project, March 2029 for the Chennai data-centre assignment and December 2029 for the Intelligence Bureau complex, providing the stated schedule for progress through the order book.