Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) has received offers from six to seven companies to hire capacity at the 5 million tonne per year Chhara LNG import facility in Gujarat, where it intends to begin operations in the coming months.
The terminal was mechanically finished in March, but commissioning took longer than expected since a 40-kilometer pipeline that connected it to an existing network intended for consumer sales was still under construction.
"We will commission the LNG terminal in the next couple of months," HPCL Director (Marketing) Amit Garg said.
HPCL, the oil refining and fuel marketing company, has been a late entrant into the gas business. It built the facility at Chhara in Gir-Somnath district of Gujarat to receive natural gas that has been supercooled to a liquid state in cryogenic ships.