The newly built Rs 6,000 crore LNG import facility owned by Adani Group and French company TotalEnergies at Dhamra on the Odisha coast has received its first ever shipment of liquefied pure fuel, a gasoline that will be used to produce fertilizers, metal, CNG, and cooking fuel, changing the landscape of Eastern India.
On April 1, the morning, the Qatari ship “Milaha Ras Laffan” docked at Dhamra Port with 2.6 trillion British thermal models of pure fuel in its frozen form (LNG), which will be used to charge the electricity, officers said.
Karan Adani, CEO of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), posted on Linkedin, “On Utkal Diwas, Odisha’s formation day, Adani Ports and SEZ is privileged to welcome to Dhamra Port its first cargo of LNG aboard the ‘Milaha Ras Laffan’.”
“This is a huge leap forward not only in access to clean and affordable energy but also in decarbonising India’s energy sector.”
Commissioning and testing operations will take as much as 45 days and industrial operations are anticipated to start out thereafter. The begin of the 5 million tonne each year LNG import terminal is essential to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to spice up pure fuel use within the nation’s vitality combine to fifteen per cent by 2030 from present 6.3 per cent.
Dhamra is the one LNG import terminal in japanese India and solely second on the complete east coast.
