据离岸工程3月6日消息称，全球最大的液化天然气生产商卡塔尔天然气公司为印度南部城市钦奈附近的恩诺尔液化天然气终端提供了试运货物。
2019年2月25日，瑞士大宗商品交易商贡沃尔公司将“Golar Snow” 号货轮向印度国有石油公司交付了调试中的液化天然气货物，该公司拥有并运营者每年500万吨的终端。卡塔尔天然气公司将这批货物以离岸价格卖给贡沃尔公司。
恩诺尔将成为印度第五个运营中的液化天然气终端，也是印度东海岸的第一个液化天然气终端。一旦完全投入使用，恩诺尔将为包括钦奈石油公司、马德拉斯化肥公司和马纳利石化公司在内的主要客户提供再气化液化天然气。
自1999年7月卡塔尔开始向马来西亚国家石油公司供应液化天然气以来，卡塔尔与印度建立了牢固的伙伴关系。自那以后，该公司根据各种长期销售和采购协议交付了1500多件货物，并向短期/现货市场供应了大量货物。
鉴于其地理位置上的邻近性和增长潜力，印度是卡塔尔天然气公司的主要市场。除恩诺尔终端外，位于Mundra和Jaigarh的终端以及许多其他天然气相关基础设施项目也将在近期投入使用。
随着印度在实现其能源结构中天然气占15%的宏伟目标方面继续取得进展，这些新增的终端将使印度的液化天然气进口能力从3000万吨/年提高至4400万吨/年，增幅达到46％。
曹海斌 摘译自 离岸工程
原文如下：
India's Ennore Terminal Gets Qatari LNG
Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG producer, supplied a commissioning cargo for India’s Ennore LNG receiving terminal, near the southern Indian city of Chennai.
The commissioning LNG cargo was delivered onboard the vessel ‘Golar Snow’ on 25th February 2019 by the Swiss commodity trader, Gunvor, to the state-owned Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), which owns and operates the five million tonnes per annum (MTPA) terminal. Qatargas sold the cargo Free On Board (FOB) basis to Gunvor.
Ennore will be India’s fifth operational LNG terminal and the first LNG terminal on the East Coast of India. once fully commissioned, Ennore will provide regasified LNG to anchor customers, including Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited, Madras Fertilizers Limited, and Manali Petrochemicals.
Qatar has established a strong partnership with India since July 1999 when Qatargas started supplying LNG to Petronet. Since then it has delivered over 1,500 cargoes under its various long term sales and purchase agreements as well as supplying significant volumes into the short term/ spot market.
India is a key market for Qatargas given its geographical proximity and growth potential. In addition to the Ennore Terminal, terminals located at Mundra and Jaigarh are also due to be commissioned in the near future as well as a host of other gas related infrastructure projects.
These additional terminals will increase India’s capacity to import LNG from 30 MTPA to 44 MTPA – a 46 per cent increase as India continues to make strides in achieving its ambitious target of 15 per cent gas in the energy mix.
