Summit LNG terminal reaches Moheshkhali mooring facility after repair works
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Summit LNG terminal reached the Moheshkhali mooring facility on Wednesday night after fixing the damage it faced during the recent cyclone Remal.
“The floating, storage, re-gasification unit (FSRU) will resume liquefied natural gas (LNG) re-gasification next week,” the managing director of Summit Corporation Faisal Khan told the FE Thursday.
Summit Corporation looks after Summit Group's LNG infrastructure and energy trading apart from power generation issues.
But Tuesday’s (July 9) damage of an arterial gas pipeline that transports regasified LNG from the coastal LNG import terminal in the Bay of Bengal to the national gas grid emerged as a fresh challenge for Summit’s FSRU to resume operation, a senior official of state-run Rupantarita Prakritk Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) said.
He said Bangladesh’s overall LNG regasification capacity dipped to 600 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) from 1.10 billion cubic feet per day (Bcfd) with the non-operation of Summit’s FSRU.
The damaged 30-km 42-inch Anowara-Fouzdarhat pipeline has shrunk the consumption capacity of the South Asian country’s regasified LNG further down to around 225 mmcfd.
The double blows – one by FSRU damage and another by pipeline -- dipped Bangladesh’s overall LNG re-gasification by 79.54 per cent to 225 mmcfd over the past one and half months from late May’s 1.10 Bcfd, according to official data of Petrobangla.
If the pipeline’s damage cannot be fixed over the next week, Summit’s FSRU will have to remain idle, the RPGCL official feared.