An Enron-era project to build a breakwater at the Dabhol LNG terminal in India, stalled since 2001 after Enron’s abrupt exit, is now expected to be completed by March 2025. 

The breakwater, critical to making the terminal an all-weather port, will aid India’s LNG imports and diversify its energy mix, and completion will enhance the terminal’s capacity and ensure year-round operations. 

Konkan LNG (KLL), a subsidiary of GAIL India, has taken charge of the project. "We are working very hard, and the project is expected to be completed by March 2025. The breakwater, an island-type structure, is built at a seabed depth of 17-18 mtrs., with a base width exceeding 100 mtrs. and rising seven mtrs. above water. It stretches 2.3 km in total, located 2.75 km offshore and 750 mtrs. from the jetty.

Enron’s original contractor BESIX had constructed 500 mtrs. of the breakwater by 2001 before leaving. L&T resumed work on the project in 2022, following its appointment in 2020. Initially part of the LNG-powered Dabhol Power Plant, the LNG terminal was commissioned in 2013 and later separated from the power plant in 2018 through a demerger. KLL became the sole owner of the terminal in 2020.