Hiranandani Group to build LNG terminal at Jaigarh

Real estate firm Hiranandani Group plans to build an 8 million ton per year LNG import facility at Jaigarh on Maharasthra by July 2018 to meet the growing energy demand.
H-Energy Gateway Pvt Ltd, a Hiranandani Group firm, has applied to sector regulator PNGRB to connect the import facility with major trunk pipelines that take gas to consumers.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board, in a public notice, invited comments on the company's proposal to connect the Jaigarh LNG terminal with Dahej-Uran-Dabhol-Panvel (DUDPL) pipeline and Dabhol-Bangalore (DBPL) line.
West coast already has four liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals - Dahej and Hazira terminals in Gujarat, Dabhol in Maharasthra and Kochi in Kerala.

Jaigarh is in Ratnagiri district of Maharasthra which also houses the 5 million tons a year Dabhol LNG import terminal of state-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd.
H-Energy plans to lay a small 40 kilometer line from the LNG receipt facility to Dabhol to hook-up or tie-in with the two pipelines.

"Both the gas pipelines are owned and operated by GAIL (India) Ltd. The tie-in connectivity pipeline (with LNG terminal) may connect to both pipeline at Dabhol where DUDPL and DBPL pipelines are connected to each other," the company said in a proposal to PNGRB.
The terminal will import gas in its liquid form (liquefied natural gas or LNG) in ships, unload it and re-convert it into its gaseous state before sending to consumers through pipeline. It will also have two LNG storage tanks of 190,000 cubic meters capacity each.

"The nominal gas send out from the LNG terminal shall be up to 29 million standard cubic meters per day (about 8 million tons per annum), with peak send out of gas reaching up to 36 mmscmd (10 million tons a year)," the proposal said.
H-Energy Gateway Pvt Ltd (erstwhile Hiranandani Gas Company Pvt Ltd) wants to operate the Jaigarh terminal on tolling basis, that is, offering import and storage facility to third parties.
It will be the first tolling terminal in the country offering 100 per cent of regasification capacity to gas importers as well as end users like power plants, fertilizer units, oil refineries and steel plants.

H-Energy will act as an infrastructure provider and would not have any interest in the commodity. Gas users will arrange for LNG from overseas and use the terminal to unload and transfering it to trunk pipelines.
The company is also evaluating the feasibility of setting up a 6 million tons per annum Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) Project in the Bay of Bengal.
H-Energy said it "has executed term sheets with customers (terminal users) for more than half of the LNG terminal regasification capacity".