Black & Veatch Wins Indian FSRU Project

Black & Veatch has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Swan LNG for the Jafrabad floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) project in the western Indian state of Gujarat, the company said July 25.

Swan LNG, a subsidiary of Swan Energy, is building a 5mn metric ton/yr floating LNG import terminal at Jafrabad in Gujarat. The new FSRU will be moored to a fixed jetty and regasify imported LNG to enable distribution by pipeline and road tanker. The facility is expected to go on-stream by early-2020.

“The Indian government aims to significantly increase LNG import capacity by 2022. This project is a major step in this direction," managing director Black & Veatch India, Rajiv Menon, said.

"The Jafrabad project, along with the Indian Oil Corporation's LNG receiving terminal project at Ennore, signifies the trust placed by the industry in Black & Veatch to deliver LNG projects," he said. 

In 2015, a Black & Veatch-led consortium, with KSS Petron India, won the contract for a new LNG receiving terminal at Ennore, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Black & Veatch is leading the EPC and commissioning work on a turnkey basis, and the plant is scheduled to be completed by 2018. 

Presently, India has the capacity to import around 28mn mt/yr of LNG through the four terminals, meeting close to half of the total gas supply of the country. The Indian oil ministry estimates that the import capacity will more than double in next five years as existing terminals expand capacity and new ones come online, especially on the eastern coast.

Shardul Sharma