India Gas Solutions, a BP-Reliance Industries JV, informed that four companies have submitted bids to build an LNG import facility on India’s west coast.
According to Mumbai Port Trust’s chairman R.M. Parmar , Excelerate Energy, Mitsui and Co of Japan, Hoegh LNG and IMC Infrastructure have all participated in the initial tender.
IGS is looking to build a 5 mtpa FSRU unit at the Mumbai port together with the accompanying infrastructure with the costs estimated at 30 billion rupees, Reuters reports.
According to Parmar, the projects is expected to be finished in 2018 and the Mumbai Port Trust will charge a fee from the company that gets selected to construct and operate the FSRU.
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LNG World News Staff; Image: Mumbai Port Trust