Toyo Wins EPC Contract At Indian LNG Project
Japan’s Toyo Engineering has landed a contract for a new LNG regasification plant on India’s west coast.
Toyo said on July 12 it had been selected to serve as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the plant on a turnkey basis.
The project, situated at the port of Chhara in India’s Gujarat state, is operated by India’s state-owned oil and gas company Hindustan Petroleum and private developer Shapoorji Pallonjis. It is slated to start up in early 2022, with an initial import capacity of 5mn mt/yr. This will rise to 10mn mt/yr under a planned expansion.
Toyo has worked on several Indian LNG projects in the past, including Petronet’s Dahej import terminal, also in Gujarat, and the nearby Mundra plant developed by Gujarat State Petroleum.
“Toyo-India will develop sales for further orders as a top runner in the construction of LNG regasification facilities,” the Japanese contractor said in a statement.
Earlier this week Japan’s IHI also secured an order to supply two 200,000-m3 LNG storage tanks for the Chhara project.