In two to three months, HPCL will commission the Chhara LNG terminal.

In the coming months, HPCL intends to begin operations at the 5 million tonne per year Chhara LNG import terminal in Gujarat. It has already received offers to hire capacity from six to seven parties.

New Delhi: According to a senior company official on Thursday, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) intends to begin operations at the 5 million tonne per year Chhara LNG import terminal in Gujarat in the coming months and has already received offers from 6-7 parties to hire capacity.

The terminal was mechanically finished in March, but commissioning took longer than expected because a 40-kilometer pipeline that connected it to an existing network intended for consumer sales was still under construction.

"The LNG terminal will be put into service within the next few months," Amit Garg, Director of Marketing at HPCL, informed reporters in this location.

The oil refining and fuel marketing company HPCL entered the petrol market somewhat late. It constructed the facility in Chhara, Gujarat's Gir-Somnath district, to receive natural gas in cryogenic ships that have been supercooled to a liquid state. The liquid gas will be converted back into a gaseous state at the terminal before being piped to various industries for use as feedstock.

According to Garg, the business has received offers from six to seven parties to hire the import capacity at Chhara. "We are in discussions and a decision will be taken soon."