new delhi staterun engineering consultancy firm engineers india ltd will seek stakes in refinery and petrochemicals projects that are contracted to it company chairman a k purwaha told reporters on fridaywe are looking at diversification of our project portfolio we are looking at water and waste management city gas distribution thermal and nuclear power gasbased fertiliser projects coaltoliquid projects and steel plants purwaha said the company is targeting a 1 billion order book this fiscaleil has been associated with almost all the refineries and petrochem plants in the country either by way of providing engineering consultancy or as epc engineering procurement and contractor it is executing the 9 million tonne bhatinda refinery hpclmittal energy joint venture and bpcls 6 million tonne bina refinerythe company would like to pick up stake in any project for distribution of gas as automotive fuel and piped kitchen fuels the company is already providing project management consultancy pmc in this area purwaha said we have signed mou with gujarat state petroleum corp gpsc we are likely to be bidding jointly in some of the citieseil has also signed mou with nuclear power corporation for design engineering and project management consultancy for execution of nuclear projects it is also working with wipro technologies to develop energy efficient and management products eil bagged orders worth rs 3800 crore over 800 million in the first nine months of the fiscal eil director finance ram singh said as on december 31 the staterun company had a total order book of rs 8100 crore three times its annual turnover eil saw its net profit rise 1025 to rs 12245 crore for the third quarter ended december 31total income of the public sector enterprise increased to rs 70980 crore for the quarter under review from rs 53627 crore for the same period previous fiscal for the ninemonth period ended december 31 2010 net profit rose to rs 35895 crore from rs 31085 crore in the same period previous year net income rose to rs 1676 crore in the ninemonth period under review from rs 1353 crore during the same period last fiscal