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Larsen & Toubro announced on Friday that L&T Onshore won a “large” order from Petronet LNG, a joint venture promoted by ONGC, IOCL, GAIL, and BPCL.
L&T said the contract is worth between 25 billion rupees and 50 billion rupees ($275.8 million and $551.6 million).
The project, to be delivered on a lump-sum, turnkey basis, includes engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of an LNG/ethane double-wall storage tank with a capacity of 170,000 cubic meters at the Dahej petrochemical complex in Gujarat.
In addition, the project includes a propane double-wall storage tank with a capacity of 140,000 cbm, L&T said.
The scope also includes ethane and propane handling and dispatch facilities to support the propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene plant.
L&T noted that this project is part of India’s first petrochemical complex integrating cold energy utilisation from an LNG terminal and is expected to contribute towards bridging the domestic polypropylene demand–supply gap.
Dahej LNG
Last month, Petronet signed a long-term ethane unloading, storage, and handling services agreement with India’s state-run ONGC.
ONGC will reserve approximately 600 ktpa of capacity at Petronet’s ethane storage and handling facilities at the Dahej LNG terminal in Gujarat.
Petronet’s under-construction unique third jetty will facilitate unloading, storage, and handling of ethane, propane, and LNG at the Dahej terminal.
The company said this jetty will be the first-of-its-kind in India, which shall be made available for third-party imports.
The company is also expanding the regasification capacity at India’s largest LNG import terminal, which currently has capacity of 17.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).
Petronet now expects to launch an additional five mtpa capacity at its Dahej LNG terminal by March 2026, according to Petronet LNG’s management.
In 2024, Petronet also launched two new Dahej LNG storage tanks, T-107 and T-108, each with a capacity of 180,000 cbm.
These two tanks added to six existing storage tanks at the Dahej terminal with a total capacity of 932,000 cbm.