Mundra Port berthed its first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargo at its terminal on January 22, 2020, marking the commissioning of India’s fifth and Gujarat’s third LNG terminal, jointly developed by Gujarat government-run companies and Adani Group, through GSPC LNG Ltd, an SPV. A 140,000-tonne LNG cargo from Qatar Gas arrived on January 22 morning at the terminal. The LNG received at the terminal would be supplied to Gujarat State Petronet Ltd’s pipeline to feed it into the market.
As per the Union Petroleum Ministry, there are currently six operational LNG regasification terminals with a capacity of about 38.8 million metric tonnes per annum. Apart from the three in Gujarat, two are operational at Kochi and one at Ennore in Tamil Nadu. The Mundra terminal was inaugurated in October 2018 by the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, but commercial operations couldn’t start till now.
