Petronet touches 3,000 LNG ship handling at Dahej terminal to up capacity

Petronet LNG Ltd (PLL) recently received the 3,000th liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipment at its Dahej LNG Terminal in Gujarat.

The terminal received its 100th LNG shipment in December 2005, 1,000th LNG shipment in February 2013, and 2,000th LNG shipment in June 2018, followed by 3,000th shipment on July 7 2022.

The terminal handles about 260–270 shipments annually at its two jetties. It took four years to receive 1,000 additional shipments to touch the level of 3,000, as compared to nine years for the first 1,000 ships and another five years for the next 1,000 ships.

PLL’s Dahej terminal, the eighth largest LNG import terminal in the world, has a capacity of 17.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa). PLL said that in terms of annual send-out (throughput), Dahej is globally positioned as the number-one terminal, and in terms of cargo handling it is considered the busiest terminal in the world.

“The terminal handles about 66 percent of the LNG demand and about 40 percent of the country’s total gas requirement,” PLL stated.

PLL said it is undertaking a highly cost-effective expansion of the regasification capacity of the Dahej LNG Terminal, resulting in an increase from 17.5 to 22.5 mtpa.

Petronet LNG is constructing two additional LNG tanks at Dahej, each with a capacity of 180,000 cubic metres.

Tank construction activities commenced in September 2021 and are currently in full swing, even as a third berth at Dahej, which will have facilities to handle ethane and propane besides LNG, is being constructed by the company.

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20th July 2022