Petronet LNG Ltd, the operator of the world’s largest liquefied pure fuel (LNG) import terminal, might take a look at organising a fourth facility within the nation to satisfy the rising vitality demand in Asia’s third-largest financial system, its CEO A Okay Singh stated.
Petronet operates a 17.5 million tonnes a yr LNG import facility at Dahej in Gujarat and one other 5 million tonnes facility at Kochi in Kerala. It is trying to arrange a floating LNG import terminal at Gopalpur in Odisha within the subsequent 3 years at a value of Rs 1,600 crore.
“We believe gas demand will continue to grow and we will need avenues to meet such requirement,” he advised PTI in an interview.
With restricted home manufacturing, fuel demand should be met via imports.
“We could possibly look at setting up a fourth LNG import and regassification terminal,” he stated with out giving particulars. “These are preliminary thoughts and we will come back to you once plans are firmed up.” Natural fuel consumption should rise to over 500 million customary cubic meters per day from the present 165 mmscmd to attain the federal government’s purpose of elevating the share of pure fuel within the nation’s main vitality basket to fifteen per cent by 2030 from the present 6.7 per cent.
With home manufacturing of fuel barely assembly half of the present consumption, import of fuel within the type of LNG should develop.
According to Shell, India would want 35 to 40 million tonnes of further LNG imports between 2020 to 2040. (1 million tonnes of LNG is the same as 3.60 mmscmd).
Besides Petronet’s terminals, India at present has an operational import facility at Hazira and Mundra in Gujarat, Dabhol in Maharashtra and Ennore in Tamil Nadu (all 5 million tonnes each year capability every).
Singh stated Petronet plans to make a foray into the petrochemical enterprise by investing Rs 12,500 crore in a Propane Dehydrogenation Plant at Dahej to transform imported feedstock into propylene.
“We plan to build a jetty at Dahej for import of ethane and propane. While propane will be used as feedstock for our petrochemical plant, ethane will be for sale to petrochemical plants of other companies such as that of OPAL,” he stated.
This jetty will price Rs 1,650 crore and can take three years to construct.
Petronet will make investments Rs 600 crore in elevating the capability of the Dahej LNG import terminal to 22.5 million tonnes each year from the present 17.5 million tonnes, Rs 1,245 crore in constructing a further storage tank and bays for truck loading of LNG.
The Dahej import terminal is the biggest on the planet and the port will host the third jetty that apart from propane and ethane, can even be used for LNG imports, he stated.
Petronet will arrange a 4 million tonne a yr floating storage & regasification (FSRU)-based LNG import facility off the Gopalpur port that later will likely be changed into a land-based terminal with the next 5 million tonne capability, with scope for elevating it in future, he stated.
The firm had some years again deliberate to arrange a terminal at Gangavaram in Andhra Pradesh for the import of supercooled fuel in ships. The firm administration stopped pursuing that terminal in 2015-16 on grounds that there isn’t sufficient demand to justify a 5 million tonne a yr import facility.
Gangavaram would have been the primary terminal on the east coast.
Soon after that, Adani Group started work to arrange a 5 million tonne a yr import terminal at Dhamra port in Odisha.
Petronet now sees that there’s demand for fuel within the japanese area and regardless of the Dhamra LNG terminal, it’s now on the lookout for a facility at Gopalpur.
Petrochemicals, made utilizing crude and pure fuel as feedstock, type uncooked materials for plastics, packaging materials, and private care merchandise.
In phrases of quantity, the petrochemical market in India stood at 42.50 million tonnes and is estimated to succeed in 49.62 million tonnes by 2025, increasing at a compound annual development price (CAGR) of 6.14 per cent between FY 2021 and FY 2025. Using ethane, plastics and detergents will be made; whereas propane can provide plastic.
Petronet is 50 per cent owned by state-owned refiners Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), fuel utility GAIL (India) Ltd and oil and fuel producer ONGC. The 4 corporations sit on the board of the corporate, which is headed by the Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”