New Delhi: The joint venture between SENER and AFCONS, named AFCONS – SENER LNG Construction Projects Private Limited, has recently signed an EPC contract with H-Energy Gateway Private limited (HEGPL), a Hiranandani Group Company, for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of its LNG storage and re-gasification project in Jaigad, Maharashtra. The capacity of the plant is 8 million tons per annum (MTPA) and facility construction is set to commence from sometime middle of this year.
“We are immensely happy with the ability of the consortium to deliver us a world class LNG re-gasification terminal and hope to extend this partnership to several other projects in the future,” said Darshan Hiranandani, Chief Executive Officer, H-Energy Group of Companies.
SENER’s Power and Process General Manager, Borja Zárraga, stated, “We hope that the Jaigad plant will be followed soon by new LNG contracts in Asia where we are currently present with other technologies like in solar thermal plants.”
The joint venture AFCONS – SENER LNG Construction Projects Private Limited is a 49-51% partnership between the two companies. SENER will carry out complete design and engineering for this project on behalf of the JV and support the JV with its global expertise in procurement, construction, project management and commissioning.
“We are delighted to be associated with this prestigious project of H-Energy as consortium partner of SENER. We already have a large footprint in LNG sector. This would be a gateway of building a long term relationship with our partner SENER and client H-Energy,” said K Subrahmanian, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, AFCONS Infrastructure Limited.
