Tata Steel plans to reline the Queen Anne blast furnace at its Scunthorpe, UK, plant at a cost of $77 million, or over Rs 400 crore. The project may be completed before the plantÂ’s 60th anniversary in April 2014. Relining will raise efficiency and capacity of the furnace as it involves replacement of the brick and refractory lining, replacement of copper mantle plates and copper stack cooling plates
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Petronet holds talks on Rs 6 bn LNG terminal project
Petronet LNG is said to be holding early stage discussion with the Andaman and Nicobar administration for setting up its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal outside mainland India. The proposed mini-LNG terminal, which may cost about Rs 600 crore, may have an initial capacity of slightly over 0.5 million tonnes (mn t) and this would prim
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Kerala govt urges centre to introduce CGD in Kochi
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy asked the union petroleum ministry to fast-track the implementation of the City Gas Distribution (CGD) project in Kochi. Recently, Chandy asked the union oil Minister Veerapa Moily to take proactive steps to realise the CGD project. In the letter, Chandy ensured his government’s “support including single window clearance for the realis
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Kerala govt wants centre to introduce CGD in Kochi
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy asked the union petroleum ministry to fast-track the implementation of the City Gas Distribution (CGD) project in Kochi. Recently, Chandy asked the union oil Minister Veerapa Moily to take proactive steps to realise the CGD project. In the letter, Chandy ensured his government’s “support including single window clearance for the realisation of the projec
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United LNG seeks govt nod for gas supply to Petronet
Houston-based United LNG will supply 4 million metric ton a year of liquefied natural gas to Petronet LNG for 20 years after the US Department of Energy gives its approval. While both, Petronet and United LNG, signed a preliminary agreement for the supply of LNG, the final agree
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Vizag port gets court notice on modernisation project
Visakhapatnam Port Trust received a notice from the Andhra Pradesh High Court, which is hearing a petition filed by the workers union against the port's plan to rope in a private party for modernisation and upgradation of facilities at the ore handling complex (OHC). It may be noted that the port invited global tenders for the project, which it intends to implement on design, build
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MBL Infra’s arm secures loan for highway project
Suratgarh Bikaner Toll Road Company, which is a subsidiary of MBL Infrastructures, achieved financial closure for two laning of Bikaner-Suratgarh section in national highway (NH)-15 in Rajasthan. The company would execute the project on design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBFOT) basis. A consortium of five public sector banks agreed to provide debt for the project. MBL Infrastructure has both engineering, procurement and construction and build-oper
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Aranmula airport project gets green nod
KGS Aranmula International Airport, which is building a Rs 2,000-crore green field airport at Pathanamthitta in Kerala, may restart construction work on the project following the verdict of the National Green Tribunal, Chennai. The tribunal dismissed a petition challenging various decisions related to the project. The decision includes indu
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HSL may get contracts worth Rs 250 bn
Hindusthan Shipyard (HSL), which has been suffering from lack of orders, may get contracts worth Rs 25,000 crore from the central government, Union Minister of State for Defence Jitendra Singh informed. The state-run shipbuilding firm may get the contracts for building war ships, the minister said. Earlier, T Subbarami Reddy, a member of the Rajya Sab
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AP govt takes steps for right of way to metro project
Andhra Pradesh government is taking efforts to give right of way for the elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail project being executed by Larsen and Toubro. The state government is taking steps to shift utilities such as water lines, sewer lines, electrical overhead lines and underground cables, electrical poles, street lights, advertisement boards