Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it has received an EPC order from Indian Oil Corporation to construct two LNG storage tanks.
The liquefied natural gas tanks will be the main facility at the first LNG receiving terminal to be constructed on India’s east coast. This is also the first LNG storage tank order that MHI has received from India.
Construction of the tanks is slated to begin in July of this year; completion is scheduled for the spring of 2018, the company informed in a statement.
The ordered LNG tanks are high-capacity storage tanks capable of holding 180,000 cbm each and will be installed at an LNG terminal that IndianOil will build near Ennore port, approximately 25 kilometers north of Chennai on the Bay of Bengal.
LNG imported to the terminal will be supplied as feedstock to fertilizer plants, and to utility company power generation plants for use as an alternative fuel. Plans also call for the use of LNG as city gas in urban areas in the future.
The terminal will initially have the capacity to handle five million metric tonnes per annum, expanding to 15 MMTPA in the future.
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Image: Ennore Port