Petronet now expects to launch Dahej LNG expansion by March 2026

The Dahej LNG terminal is India’s largest LNG import facility, with a current capacity of 17.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).

Last year, Petronet launched two new Dahej LNG storage tanks, T-107 and T-108, each with a capacity of 180,000 cbm.

These two tanks add to six existing storage tanks at the Dahej terminal with a total capacity of 932,000 cbm, while Pertonet is also building a third jetty at the facility.

Petronet’s executives previously stated that the 5 mtpa additional capacity at the Dahej terminal would be available by March 2025, but later revised this to June this year and then to the end of this year.

Asked about the status of the expansion project during Petronet’s earnings call, Petronet’s finance chief Saurav Mitra said, “We are very close to completing the project mechanically.”

However, the project has been delayed, and the company expects to commission the additional regasification capacity by the end of March 2026.

He said the initial target was March 2025 and then it was shifted to October 2025, but now it’s end of fiscal 2026.

“When I am talking about March 2026, it is basically the commissioning of the expanded capacity, and earlier, when we mentioned October.. that was the mechanical completion,” he said.

“We have already discussed in our earlier conference calls on the reasons for the delay,” he said.

He said reason number one is the monsoon.

“So, both these factors have played a major role in shifting of the commissioning dates and as well as the mechanical completion dates. So, these are the two major factors and we are trying to cope up with the setbacks with right earnest and should be able to commission this expanded capacity by March,” Mitra said.