Petronet LNG to raise Dahej terminal capacity to 17.5 mt.

Petronet LNG Ltd. India's biggest gas importer, plans to hike its Dahej import terminal capacity to 17.5 million tons from current 10 million tons, its chief executive A K Balyan said recently.

'We have awarded all contracts for expansion of the capacity from 10 million tons to 15 million tons. By November 2016, Dahej terminal would be operating at 15 million tons capacity,' he said.

Further, the company is looking a de-bottlenecking and other improvements in project design to further raise the capacity to 17.5 million tons.


'Studies are being done for debottlenecking,' he said. Petronet, he said, has this month completed commissioning of a second jetty which will allow larger ships carrying natural gas in its liquid form (liquefied natural gas or LNG) to dock at the port in Gujarat.

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