IOCL awards EPC contract to Black & Veatch, KSS Petron for Ennore LNG terminal

A consortium led by Black & Veatch - a global engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company – and Gurgaon-based KSS Petron Pvt Ltd has been awarded a contract for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal at Ennore, Tamil Nadu, by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL).
 
Black & Veatch will lead the engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and commissioning work on a turnkey basis, and the plant is scheduled to be completed by 2018. “The Ennore LNG project is vital for gas supply and furthers our established brand as a proven tier-one global EPC provider,” said G Sathiamoorthy, managing director of Black & Veatch India.
 
A regasification terminal converts LNG from liquid back to gas so it can be supplied to customers such as power companies. India currently has four such terminals, all on the west coast. IOCL’s Ennore terminal will be the first-of-its-kind on India’s east coast. The Ennore EPC project entails designing and building a facility to regasify five million metric tonne per annum (MMTPA) of tanker-borne LNG imported by IOCL.
 
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. As a result, the project is expected to aid further industrial growth in the region.