据普氏能源资讯新德里报道，印度H-能源公司日前宣布了有关在印度东部港市卡基纳达港(Kakinada)建设一个液化天然气（LNG）再气化和再装载终端并有可能把这个港口开发成为LNG中心来满足印度东海岸和邻国的天然气需求。

印度H-能源公司在一份声明中说，该公司已与卡基纳达海港有限公司签署了一项港口服务协议，该协议将提供港口服务来最初满足印度安得拉邦当地消费者对LNG的需求，但长期目标是把这个港口变成印度东海岸的一个LNG中心。此外，H-能源公司还将开发LNG再装载和分装设施。

H-能源公司说，其长期计划包括通过小型LNG船从卡基纳达港向即将建成的西孟加拉州Kukrahati液化天然气终端以及孟加拉国和缅甸等邻国供应LNG。

H-能源公司总经理兼首席执行官Darshan Hiranandani在声明中说：“我们相信，卡基纳达港现有的防风堤和深水装载设施以及邻近的各种天然气管道使这个项目对我们的客户、合作伙伴和我们自己来说都是一个高效、成功的项目。”

Hiranandani在另一次采访中对标普全球普氏能源资讯记者表示，为了为占领印度国内不断增长的天然气市场做好准备，H-能源公司计划从2020年开始，按照新的定期合同，每年进口200万吨LNG，为期5年。

本月早些时候,俄罗斯诺瓦泰克与H-能源公司签署了一份谅解备忘录，合作向印度长期供应LNG，共同投资H-能源公司未来的LNG终端和诺瓦泰克的LNG项目以及组建一家合资企业从诺瓦泰克向印度和其他市场的终端用户出售LNG。

李峻 编译自 Platts

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India's H-Energy to develop LNG regasification terminal at Kakinada

India's H-Energy has announced plans to develop an LNG regasification and reloading terminal at Kakinada, potentially developing the port into an LNG hub to cater to demand on the country's east coast and in neighboring countries.

The company has signed a port services agreement with Kakinada Seaports Ltd to offer port services to initially cater to the LNG demands of local customers in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, but with a long-term goal of making the port an LNG hub on the east coast, H-Energy said in a statement. LNG reloading and breakbulk facilities will also be developed, it added.

H-Energy said its longer-term plans include supplying LNG from Kakinada via small LNG vessels to its upcoming Kukrahati LNG terminal in the eastern state of West Bengal and to neighboring countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar.

"We believe that Kakinada with its existing breakwater and deep draft, combined with its proximity to various natural gas pipelines, makes this an efficient and successful project for our customers, our partners and ourselves," H-Energy managing director and CED Darshan Hiranandani said in the statement.

The company plans to import 2 million mt/year of LNG under new term contracts for a five-year period from 2020 as it gets ready to capture part of the growing gas market in India, Hiranandani told S&P Global Platts in a separate interview..

Earlier this month, Russia's Novatek signed a memorandum of understanding with H-Energy to cooperate on long-term LNG supply to India, jointly invest in H-Energy's future LNG terminals and Novatek's LNG projects, as well as form a joint venture to sell LNG and natural gas from Novatek to end-users in India and other markets.