Mott MacDonald has been appointed by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) to provide full consultancy services for a development of petroleum, oil and lubricant (POL) terminals at a new green-field marketing installation at Visakhapatnam in India on the coastal belt of the Bay of Bengal.

Mott MacDonald’s oil, gas and petrochemical professionals will provide consultancy services throughout the project from the conceptual stage through to handing over the entire facility to HPCL. This will include design, engineering, procurement, project and construction management services.

The POL terminals will consist of facilities to receive and transport white and black oil products with full terminal automation and communication facilities. This will include providing evacuation pipelines for both black and white oil products from the nearby Visakh Refinery to adjacent storage tank farms, product loading gantries with rail wagons as well as road tanker loading jetty pipelines, along with integrated off-sites and utilities, non-plant buildings, telecommunications and green belt development.

Vinod Shah, Mott MacDonald’s operations director for oil and gas India said, “We are delighted to be appointed by HPCL. Mott MacDonald has world class experience in delivering oil and gas projects to high quality and safety standards and we look forward to demonstrating our expertise on this prestigious project.”

The project is due to be completed by the end of 2010.

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