Sify.com: National Thermal Power Corp plans to import LNG (ShellNews.net)

Friday, 03 September 2004

 plans to import 1.5-2 million tonnes of LNG to meet fuel deficit at its power plants and is in talks with Petronet LNG Ltd and Royal/Dutch Shell for hiring their facilities for regasifying the imported fuel.  

NTPC has written to Petronet, RasGas of Qatar, Petronas of Malaysia, Yemen LNG and Oman for 7 to 9 million standard cubic meters per day of gas to meet the fuel deficit at its Anta (Rajasthan), Auriya (UP), Kawas and Gandhar (Gujarat), Dadri (UP) and Faridabad (Haryana) power plants, sources said.

The State-run power utility plans to source 6-7 mmscmd of LNG on cif basis (supplier making arrangements to ship the gas in liquefied form) for a period of three years. NTPC is already in talks with Petronet LNG and Shell to use their storage and regasification facilities at Dahej and Hazira.

PLL managing director and CEO, Suresh Mathur said Petronet has offered to process capacity of 2.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG until March 2005 and a capacity of 1.25 million tonnes per annum from April 2005 to 2007.

"We are only importing 2.5 million tonnes of LNG from Qatar in 2004-05. Our Dahej plant will operate at its full capacity of 5 million tonnes from April 2005 when additional 2.5 million tonnes comes. Till than we can regasify the LNG NTPC imports", he said.

Though the nameplate capacity of Dahej terminal is 5 million tonnes, the plant can process upto 6.25 to 6.5 million tonnes of LNG a year.

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