The Qatari company Qatargas has delivered the commissioning cargo for the Dhamra LNG terminal, located in the state of Odisha (eastern India) and owned and operated by Adani Total Private Limited (ATPL), a 50:50 joint venture between France’s TotalEnergies and India’s Adani Group. The delivery of this first cargo will allow the gradual commissioning of the new terminal.
The Dhamra LNG terminal has a regasification capacity of 5 Mt/year, which will increase India’s regasification capacity by about 10% (it stood at 48.5 Mt/year at the end of 2021). The terminal will feature two 180,000 m3 tanks and the facility's jetty will be able to handle LNG carriers ranging between 70,000 m3 and 265,000 m3 in capacity. The project, which is expected to begin commercial operations by the end of May 2023, is India’s seventh LNG terminal and the second of its kind on the east coast of the country.
In 2021, India imported nearly 31 bcm of LNG (100% of its gas imports). The country plans to increase the share of natural gas in its energy mix from 8% (28.4 GW in 2021) to 15% by 2030 in order to reduce its carbon intensity.