Indian Oil Corporation and the EPCs Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Black & Veatch have recently entrusted AMPO POYAM VALVES with the design and manufacture of more than 1500 highly engineered valves for ENNORE LNG plant, located in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The valves’ sizes will range from ½” to 36” and the pressure range will vary from 150 to 1500 lbs.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is currently building two LNG storage tanks with a capacity of 180,000 cubic meters each, whereas Black & Veatch is in charge of the construction of the regasification facilities, which will have an initial capacity of 5 mtpa’s. In a second phase they expect to expand the capacity up to 15 mtpa’s.
ENNORE LNG plant is scheduled to be commissioned in 2018 and will install AMPO POYAM VALVES’ manual cryogenic ball, globe and check valves, cryogenic ball valves with electric and pneumatic actuators and non-cryogenic gate valves with pneumatic actuators. All these actuated valves will also have the SIL certification.