With the berthing of two LNG carriers at the Petronet LNG Dahej terminal and Hazira Port Private Limited (HPPL), gas shortage at the industrial units in Gujarat is likely to end soon, a port official said here.
"Bad weather conditions off Gujarat coast did not allow the two LNG carriers to berth. But, today both the LNG carrier were successfully docked, one at HPPL and another at Petronet LNG Dahej terminal," Port Officer Dahej R K Raman told PTI.
Officials at both the terminals were unable to dock the LNG vessels for the past few days, due to rough weather conditions off Gujarat coast that led to curtailment of gas supply to around 3,000 industrial units across the state.
"Gas supply to the industrial units was hit between 5 pm yesterday and 12 pm today. But, it has now resumed," a GSPC official said.
"The regassification process of LNG has commenced at both the terminals-Dahej and Hazira-and the distributors would get their quota of natural gas supplies in due course of time," another port official said, preferring anonymity.
"Now, we hope to get regular gas supply soon. Supply to industry will be also be ramped up gradually and normal supply to units across Gujarat could resume soon," a spokesperson of a City Gas Distributors (CGD) said.
The gas supply to industrial units was curtailed by few CGDs including GSPC, due to shortage of gas owing to non-berthing of LNG carriers.
