Adani’s Dhamra LNG terminal in Odisha receives 1st cargo, to start out fuel revolution in East

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Adani Group and French firm TotalEnergies’ newly constructed Rs 6,000 crore LNG import facility at Dhamra on the Odisha coast has acquired its first ever cargo of liquefied pure fuel – a gasoline that shall be used to make metal, produce fertilizers and become CNG and cooking fuel, serving to change the panorama of Eastern India.

Qatari ship ‘Milaha Ras Laffan’ docked at Dhamra Port on April 1 morning, bringing in 2.6 trillion British thermal models of pure fuel in its frozen kind (LNG) which shall be used to fee the power, officers mentioned.

“On Utkal Diwas, Odisha’s formation day, Adani Ports and SEZ is privileged to welcome to Dhamra Port its first cargo of LNG aboard the ‘Milaha Ras Laffan’,” Karan Adani, CEO of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), wrote on Linkedin.

“This is a huge leap forward not only in access to clean and affordable energy but also in decarbonising India’s energy sector.”

Commissioning and testing operations will take as much as 45 days and industrial operations are anticipated to start out thereafter. The begin of the 5 million tonne each year LNG import terminal is essential to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to spice up pure fuel use within the nation’s vitality combine to fifteen per cent by 2030 from present 6.3 per cent.

Dhamra is the one LNG import terminal in japanese India and solely second on the complete east coast.

The nation’s 5 different terminals are on its western coast (three in Gujarat, one every in Maharashtra and Kerala).

Adani Total Pvt Ltd, the place Adani Group and TotalEnergies SE have 50 per cent stake every, will use the cargo acquired on April 1 to do security verify and check techniques, officers mentioned.

After all checks, the terminal could be prepared to start out industrial operations with an anticipated 2.2-2.3 million tonne of LNG anticipated to be imported within the first yr and a gradual ramp-up to full capability within the subsequent.

The 135,000 cubic meter capability Milaha Ras Laffan was loaded at Qatargas on March 21.

The check cargo has been supplied by TotalEnergies from its portfolio.

Dhamra is a tolling facility the place state-owned GAIL (India) Ltd and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) have booked capability.

They will import LNG on the terminal which shall be re-converted into fuel earlier than being piped to refineries and fertiliser models.

It will even be transformed into CNG for working cars and piped into family kitchens for cooking functions.

It has a 20-year take-or-pay contract to offer regasification providers to IOC for 3 million tonne each year of LNG and 1.5 million tonne to GAIL.

Officials mentioned the commissioning cargo was acquired on Utkal Diwas – the day in 1936 when the state of Odisha (earlier Orissa) was shaped.

This marks graduation of the terminal’s commissioning, with a variety of levels to be accomplished within the coming weeks.

The terminal will be capable to berth the widest vary of LNG vessels all yr spherical, transport fuel through pipelines, vehicles or on reloaded vessels.

It homes two storage tanks, every of 180,000 cubic meters capability, amongst the most important within the nation.

The capability may be doubled to 10 million tonne in future by including a 3rd tank, they mentioned.

Adani Total is a partnership of complementary ability units.

While Adani has world-class infrastructure and port improvement capabilities, TotalEnergies is the third largest world LNG participant globally.

Together, the JV constructed and delivered the mission over the previous 4 years, overcoming a number of challenges just like the pandemic, cyclones, tough soil situations, provide chain disruptions and the extremely risky LNG market because of the battle in Europe.

Officials mentioned Dhamra would be the foremost provide level on the not too long ago accomplished Urja Ganga pipeline developed by GAIL, offering fuel entry to over 35 per cent of India’s inhabitants, protecting about 20 per cent of the nation’s land mass.

Refineries, fertiliser crops, industries and metropolis fuel networks within the hinterland would be the main shoppers of fuel from Dhamra LNG.

The Urja Ganga pipeline can be related to the opposite National Gas Grid – the Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur (HVJ) pipeline, offering clients within the north of the nation with a prepared different supply of provide when in comparison with the western terminals on whom they’re solely dependent at current.

Its proximity to Bangladesh and different regional markets permits Dhamra to grow to be a viable level of provide to them as nicely, they mentioned including the Srikakulam-Angul and Mumbai-Jharsuguda pipeline initiatives will quickly join Dhamra to central and southern states, finishing the National Gas Grid integration.

The long-term value of LNG trades at a reduction of greater than USD 5 per million British thermal unit in comparison with different liquid fuels like naphtha, gasoline oil and diesel.

The present annual consumption of substitutable liquid fuels throughout refineries, fertiliser crops and industries within the japanese area is of the order of 5 million tonne each year.

Based on this, substituting 5 million tonne equal liquid fuels with LNG would characterize a saving of USD 1.25 billion (about Rs 10,000 crore) each year for the Indian economic system, they mentioned.

LNG is predominantly methane (C1) fuel chilled to round minus 160 levels Celsius the place it turns right into a liquid at atmospheric stress, occupying lower than 1/600th of the quantity it in any other case would.

This permits enormous portions of vitality to be transported throughout oceans in specialised vessels.

It is taken into account as a bridge gasoline for India’s vitality transition.

Last yr, the worldwide LNG commerce reached round 400 million tonne.

Over the previous three years, Indian imports have various between 22 and 24 million tonne representing round 3 per cent of the nation’s major vitality basket.

NEW DELHI: Adani Group and French firm TotalEnergies’ newly constructed Rs 6,000 crore LNG import facility at Dhamra on the Odisha coast has acquired its first ever cargo of liquefied pure fuel – a gasoline that shall be used to make metal, produce fertilizers and become CNG and cooking fuel, serving to change the panorama of Eastern India.

Qatari ship ‘Milaha Ras Laffan’ docked at Dhamra Port on April 1 morning, bringing in 2.6 trillion British thermal models of pure fuel in its frozen kind (LNG) which shall be used to fee the power, officers mentioned.

“On Utkal Diwas, Odisha’s formation day, Adani Ports and SEZ is privileged to welcome to Dhamra Port its first cargo of LNG aboard the ‘Milaha Ras Laffan’,” Karan Adani, CEO of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), wrote on Linkedin.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“This is a huge leap forward not only in access to clean and affordable energy but also in decarbonising India’s energy sector.”

Commissioning and testing operations will take as much as 45 days and industrial operations are anticipated to start out thereafter. The begin of the 5 million tonne each year LNG import terminal is essential to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to spice up pure fuel use within the nation’s vitality combine to fifteen per cent by 2030 from present 6.3 per cent.

Dhamra is the one LNG import terminal in japanese India and solely second on the complete east coast.

The nation’s 5 different terminals are on its western coast (three in Gujarat, one every in Maharashtra and Kerala).

Adani Total Pvt Ltd, the place Adani Group and TotalEnergies SE have 50 per cent stake every, will use the cargo acquired on April 1 to do security verify and check techniques, officers mentioned.

After all checks, the terminal could be prepared to start out industrial operations with an anticipated 2.2-2.3 million tonne of LNG anticipated to be imported within the first yr and a gradual ramp-up to full capability within the subsequent.

The 135,000 cubic meter capability Milaha Ras Laffan was loaded at Qatargas on March 21.

The check cargo has been supplied by TotalEnergies from its portfolio.

Dhamra is a tolling facility the place state-owned GAIL (India) Ltd and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) have booked capability.

They will import LNG on the terminal which shall be re-converted into fuel earlier than being piped to refineries and fertiliser models.

It will even be transformed into CNG for working cars and piped into family kitchens for cooking functions.

It has a 20-year take-or-pay contract to offer regasification providers to IOC for 3 million tonne each year of LNG and 1.5 million tonne to GAIL.

Officials mentioned the commissioning cargo was acquired on Utkal Diwas – the day in 1936 when the state of Odisha (earlier Orissa) was shaped.

This marks graduation of the terminal’s commissioning, with a variety of levels to be accomplished within the coming weeks.

The terminal will be capable to berth the widest vary of LNG vessels all yr spherical, transport fuel through pipelines, vehicles or on reloaded vessels.

It homes two storage tanks, every of 180,000 cubic meters capability, amongst the most important within the nation.

The capability may be doubled to 10 million tonne in future by including a 3rd tank, they mentioned.

Adani Total is a partnership of complementary ability units.

While Adani has world-class infrastructure and port improvement capabilities, TotalEnergies is the third largest world LNG participant globally.

Together, the JV constructed and delivered the mission over the previous 4 years, overcoming a number of challenges just like the pandemic, cyclones, tough soil situations, provide chain disruptions and the extremely risky LNG market because of the battle in Europe.

Officials mentioned Dhamra would be the foremost provide level on the not too long ago accomplished Urja Ganga pipeline developed by GAIL, offering fuel entry to over 35 per cent of India’s inhabitants, protecting about 20 per cent of the nation’s land mass.

Refineries, fertiliser crops, industries and metropolis fuel networks within the hinterland would be the main shoppers of fuel from Dhamra LNG.

The Urja Ganga pipeline can be related to the opposite National Gas Grid – the Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur (HVJ) pipeline, offering clients within the north of the nation with a prepared different supply of provide when in comparison with the western terminals on whom they’re solely dependent at current.

Its proximity to Bangladesh and different regional markets permits Dhamra to grow to be a viable level of provide to them as nicely, they mentioned including the Srikakulam-Angul and Mumbai-Jharsuguda pipeline initiatives will quickly join Dhamra to central and southern states, finishing the National Gas Grid integration.

The long-term value of LNG trades at a reduction of greater than USD 5 per million British thermal unit in comparison with different liquid fuels like naphtha, gasoline oil and diesel.

The present annual consumption of substitutable liquid fuels throughout refineries, fertiliser crops and industries within the japanese area is of the order of 5 million tonne each year.

Based on this, substituting 5 million tonne equal liquid fuels with LNG would characterize a saving of USD 1.25 billion (about Rs 10,000 crore) each year for the Indian economic system, they mentioned.

LNG is predominantly methane (C1) fuel chilled to round minus 160 levels Celsius the place it turns right into a liquid at atmospheric stress, occupying lower than 1/600th of the quantity it in any other case would.

This permits enormous portions of vitality to be transported throughout oceans in specialised vessels.

It is taken into account as a bridge gasoline for India’s vitality transition.

Last yr, the worldwide LNG commerce reached round 400 million tonne.

Over the previous three years, Indian imports have various between 22 and 24 million tonne representing round 3 per cent of the nation’s major vitality basket.