SUMMARY
The project has been proposed to be developed by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) through Indian Oil LNG Private Limited (IOLPL), a special purpose vehicle, incorporated for the project. It involves setting up of a five million tonnes per annum (mtpa) liquefied natural gas (LNG) import, storage and regasification terminal at Kattupalli, close to the Ennore Port, to the north of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. Black & Veatch led consortium, with KSS Petron India, has won the contract for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal at Ennore, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The contract was awarded by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), India’s national oil company. 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.