India misses import target for gas by 67%

India was able to import only a third of the gas it wanted to ship into the country in 2006-07, owing to uncertainties in the global gas trade and inadequate infrastructure in the country to handle gas imports, resulting in a shortage of the fuel that affected several companies, including power utilities and fertilizer manufacturers.

The country had originally planned to import 15 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of gas, but ended up importing a third of that amount, according to a senior official at the ministry of petroleum and natural gas, who did not wish to be identified.


India has only two LNG (liquefied natural gas) regasification terminals with a combined capacity of 7.5mtpa.

Gas is shipped in liquid form and regasified when the ship berths.