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Oil India to set up LNG terminal [1]

Appoints Foster Wheeler as consultant to prepare project report

Even as domestic gas production has fallen 8 per cent, Oil India Ltd (OIL) is planning to set up a liquefied natural gas ( LNG) receiving terminal in India. The company plans to set up a 2.5-million tonne (mt) capacity terminal. According to an industry executive in the know, Geneva-based Foster Wheeler AG has been appointed consultant to prepare a project report for the foray into imported gas. When asked, Ananth Kumar, director (finance), Oil India, confirmed the appointment of a consultant about a fortnight ago, but did not divulge the name, citing a confidentiality clause in the contract.

Publication Date: 
11/12/2012
Kalpana Pathak [2], Jyoti Mukul [3]
Business Standard (New Delhi) [4]
Tags:
Oil India [5], Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) [6], Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) [7], Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) [8], Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) [9], Gujarat [10], Kochi [11], Energy [12]
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National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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