Petronet LNG, India’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer, has doubled the capacity of its LNG terminal at Dahej in Gujarat to 10 millions tonnes. The company is expected to resume normal supplies from the terminal by Thursday. The company had shut down the terminal on January 7 to hook up new facilities.
Dahej is connected to both GAIL and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation’s pipeline networks but for the gas to reach critical consumers in power and fertiliser sector, the state-run firm GAIL has to make its pipeline fully ready to receive the gas.
GAIL’s main trunk pipeline, connecting the gas sources in the west to consumption centres in the north, had been shut due to the PSU oil sector officers strike in the company and is now being revived.