Project Profile
Value: US$430 million
Location: Ennore Port, India
Capacity: 10 million tonne per annum
Start-up Year: -
The in Ennore - Tamil Nadu LNG Terminal is located in Ennore, Tamil Nadu, on India’s east coast. Foster Wheeler will undertake marine studies to enable IOCL to decide on the jetty location, utilities and regasified LNG send-out facilities. LNG terminal at Ennore port, which is the first one on the east coast, is expected to have five million tonne capacity per annum and can be expanded to 10 million tonne per annum. The IOCL will import LNG fuel in liquid form using storage tanks in special ships, gasify it and sell it in the domestic market.
Operator:
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL): Operator with 95% interest
Tamil Nadu Government: 5% interest
Contractors:
Foster Wheeler: Build LNG receiving terminal
Black & Veatch and KSS Petron India: Contract for a new liquefied natural gas receiving terminal at Ennore, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The contract was awarded by Indian Oil Corporation. Black & Veatch will lead the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning work on a turnkey basis, and the plant is scheduled to be completed by 2018. IOCL’s Ennore terminal will consist of two storage tanks capable of holding 180,000m3 each. With a send-out capacity of five million tonnes, the regasification terminal paves the way for supply of LNG to high gas demand southern states, particularly Tamil Nadu and some parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Pvt Ltd: Contract to build two football stadium-sized LNG gas storage tanks having a storage capacity of 180,000 cubic meters of gas.
Subcontractors:
Punj Lloyd: Contracted by MHI for the construction of two 180,000 cbm tanks.