Indian H-Energy Starts Building Jetty for its Jaigarh FSRU Project

Mumbai based H-Energy has started to build a jetty for its floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) project in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. The company greenlighted the jetty construction in December last year.

Jaigarh Port is to manage the construction of the jetty civil works and has appointed L&T Infrastructure Engineering for jetty design, the company said February 27. The contract for the civil construction works of the LNG jetty has been awarded to ITD Cementation, Mumbai. H-Energy and Jaigarh Port have jointly appointed COWI India to supervise the jetty construction.

Darshan Hiranandani, CEO, H-Energy (Credit: H-Energy)

The initial project will consist of a FSRU based LNG re-gasification terminal with a capacity of 4mn metric tons/yr, which will ultimately be expanded to 8mn mt/yr. The LNG import terminal is being developed under a sub-concession agreement between H-Energy and Jaigarh Port.

Jaigarh Port is to be responsible for construction of the port facilities, maintenance of the common port infrastructure such as breakwater, navigation channel, berth basin and provision of port related services.

In addition to building the marine infrastructure in the port of Jaigarh to import and regasify the LNG, the project scope also includes building a 60-km gas pipeline connecting the Jaigarh terminal to the existing natural gas pipeline network at Dabhol.

H-Energy plans to start commercial operations of the LNG facilities at Jaigarh, after completing the necessary topside facilities, in 3Q 2018.

Meanwhile the company also stated that its Jaigarh - Mangalore pipeline project is making substantial progress on its regulatory approvals and route surveys.

Shardul Sharma