Mumbai-based Hiranandani Group outfit, H-Energy expects to place an order for India’s first offshore LNG terminal near the West Bengal coast, and start construction of the trunk pipeline to supply gas to Bengal, Bangladesh and Odisha in 2016.
In May 2016, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), declared the company as the lowest bidder (in terms of transmission cost of the gas) to build and operate the 705 km trunk pipeline from Contai (Medinipur, West Bengal)–Duttapulia (Bengal-Bangladesh border)–Paradip (Odisha) natural gas pipeline.
At the thumb rule cost of Rs 4 crore a km, the trunk pipeline will cost Rs 2,820 crore.
Including another 200 odd km of spur lines, the total cost of the pipeline project will near Rs 3,600 crore. It will also connect the 10 million tonne LNG terminal of Adani Group at Dhamra port.
Both, Dhamra and H-Energy LNG projects are expected to start operations in 2020.
H-Energy will build the 119 km pipeline from the Contai coast to the industrial city of Haldia in the first phase by 2019.