Gases and engineering group Linde has been tapped by oil refinery group PSC TAIF-NK to provide engineering and procurement services for two hydrogen plants it is building at Nizhnekamsk in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan.

The contract worth €120 million covers two plants with a capacity for around 110,000 normal cubic meters per hour (Nm³/h) of high purity hydrogen to feed the refinery's new heavy residue conversion starting at the end of 2015.

PSC TAIF-NK operates the largest refinery in Tatarstan, which also includes a gasoline plant and gas condensation plant.

Linde managing board member Aldo Belloni said the company is "confident that this agreement will lead to further key contracts for our gases and engineering business in this important eastern European growth market."