Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 -- India's state-owned Petronet LNG Ltd. has awarded a ¥30 billion contract to a joint venture of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. (IHI), Toyo Engineering Corp., Itochu Corp., and Mitsui & Co. to expand an LNG receiving terminal.
Capacity at the terminal, in Dahej in India's west coast state of Gujarat, will be doubled to 10 million tonnes/year, with work scheduled for completion by yearend 2008. The partners will oversee the entire project from materials procurement to construction.
In December, a consortium of Japanese shipping lines—Mitsui OSK Lines, NYK Lines, and K Line—won a 25-year contract from Petronet LNG to deliver LNG from Qatar to the Dahej terminal (OGJ Online, Dec. 29, 2005).
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