Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has selected Technip as a technology supplier and engineering contractor to implement its Refinery Off-Gas Cracker ( ROGC) project, a company press release Friday said.

This is part of the expansion project being executed at RIL's world-scale refining and petrochemical complex in Jamnagar in the state of Gujarat, on the west coast of India.

Technip is a French company established in Paris in 1958, at present has worldwide operations and manages industrial assets on five continents.

The ROGC plant will be amongst the largest ethylene crackers in the world and will be using refinery off-gas as feedstock. The products from the plant will be utilized for the new downstream petrochemical plants being built at Jamnagar.