Kochi LNG Terminal

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Kochi LNG Terminal is an LNG terminal in Kerala, India.

Location

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Project Details

• Owner:
• Parent: BPCL, GAIL, ONGC, IOCL, Engie
• Location: Puthuvype, Kochi, Kerala, India
• Coordinates: 9.9787, 76.2261 (exact)
• Capacity: 5 mtpa, 0.72 bcfd
• Additional Proposed Capacity: mtpa, 0 bcfd
• Status: Operating
• Type: Import
• Start Year: 2013

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

Kochi LNG Terminal is an LNG terminal in Kerala, India.

Petronet expects Kochi LNG Terminal to be connected via pipeline to industries further north by 2019, increasing demand and its running capacity to 40 percent. In 2017 the terminal was operating at 10 percent of capacity, with only two local customers. Petronet has been waiting for GAIL to settle resistance with landowners over pipeline construction, while the government urges them to resolve disputes.

Opposition

Police removed protesters who had disrupted the functioning of Kochi LNG in June of 2017. According to police, 204 protestors were arrested. The Varapuzha archbishop, Joseph Kalathilparambil, condemned the arrest, saying that "Abolishing people's protest is not the right way. There are more than 1,000 families residing in a one kilometer radius of the project. The people are apprehensive about the project leading to disasters in the future."