H Energy Plans 8 mt/y LNG Terminal on India's West Coast

Hiranandani Group owned H Energy plans to build an 8 million ton per year LNG import facility at Jaigarh in western Indian state of Maharasthra by July 2018, according to Press Trust of India.

The company has applied to sector regulator to connect the import facility with major trunk pipelines that take gas to consumers, the news agency added.

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.

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, Press Trust said.

"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.