Kochi LNG Terminal

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Kochi LNG Terminal is an operating LNG import terminal in India.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Kochi LNG Terminal	Puthuvype, Kochi, Kerala, India	9.9787, 76.2261 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the terminal:

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Project Details

Table 2: Infrastructure details

mtpa = million tonnes per year

Name	Facility type	Status	Capacity	Total terminal capacity	Offshore	Associated infrastructure
Kochi LNG Terminal	import	operating	5 mtpa	5.0 mtpa	False	Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangalore Gas Pipeline

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Kochi LNG Terminal	import	–	–

Financing

No financing data available.

Table 4: Project timeline

FID = Final Investment Decision, used by some developers to indicate a project will move forward

Name	Facility type	Status	Proposal year	FID year	Construction year	Operating year	Inactive year
Kochi LNG Terminal	import	operating	–	–	–	2013	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Kochi LNG Terminal	import	operating	Petronet LNG [100%]	Petronet LNG [100.0%]	–

Background

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

Petronet expects Kochi LNG Terminal to be connected via the Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangalore Gas 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 the pipeline's construction, while the government urges them to resolve disputes.

In November 2020, the expansion of the pipeline connecting the Kochi LNG terminal to the grid was completed, allowing an increase in the terminal’s utilisation rate.

As of May 2024, Petronet was expanding the Kochi-Bangalore pipeline, which was expected to be completed by December 2024 or March 2025. This is expected to substantially boost the utilization of the facility which is currently operating at about 20 percent capacity.

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."

In December 2019, protestors launched an indefinite satyagraha (a form of non-violent protest) against the project before the Elamkunnappuzha panchayat village office. A march was also being planned.

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