Ministry Clears Rs. 34bn Expansion of IndianOil’s Ennore LNG Terminal

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has granted environmental clearance for the Rs. 34 billion expansion of IndianOil LNG Pvt Ltd’s (IOLPL) Ennore LNG terminal in North Chennai. This will pave the way for doubling the facility’s regasification capacity from 5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to 10 MTPA.

IndianOil LNG Private Ltd, a joint venture of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, commissioned the country’s first LNG import and regasification terminal on the east coast at Ennore in 2019 after construction began in 2015. The facility was originally designed with a capacity of 5 MMTPA and provisions for future expansion to 10 MMTPA.

The proposed expansion is driven by rising natural gas demand in the Ennore catchment area. The enhanced facility will increase regasification capacity from 20 million standard cubic metres per day (MMSCMD) to 40 MMSCMD, enabling greater supplies of regasified LNG (RLNG) to industries across Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the company said in a filing with the Environment ministry.