Black & Veatch, a global leader in delivering world-class ?concept to commissioning? project solutions in the segments of power, oil & gas, water and telecom, has announced that a consortium led by it with KSS Petron India, has won the contract for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal at Ennore, in Tamil Nadu. The contract was awarded by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL).

Black & Veatch will lead the engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and commissioning work on a turnkey basis, and the plant is scheduled to be completed by 2018. ?The Ennore LNG project is vital for gas supply and furthers our established brand as a proven tier-one global EPC provider,? said G. Sathiamoorthy, Managing Director, Black & Veatch India.

IOCL?s Ennore terminal will be the first-of-its-kind on India?s east coast. With a send-out capacity of five million tonne, the regasification terminal paves the way for supply of LNG to southern states.