for power plants of 3,600MW installed in Punjab helping to end power outages at the maximum. "The terminal's availability will be 96 percent in 365 days for 15 years and it will normally handle Q-flex (LNG carrier from Qatar having 215,000 tons of LNG)."
The facilities the terminal has include platform with fenders to front jetty, marine loading arms designed for handling even the Q Max (LNG carrier from Qatar having 275,000 tons of LNG), firefighting system with capacity to get operational in 10 milliseconds in case of fire eruption, CCTV cameras to monitor all the activities in the terminal and electrical pullenger type SmartMoor Quick Release Hooks system make the terminal illustrious. The said LNG terminal will be having the installed capacity to handle and re-gasify the 750 mmcfd LNG. However, it will be having the live capacity of 690 mmcfd out of which the government has extended to the terminal management the off take guarantee of 600 mmcfd LNG and the remaining 90 mmcfd LNG will be provided to the private party and to this effect, the top management is in talks with various parties that include K-Electric, CNG Association (Sindh chapter) and some industrialists.
He also explained while pointing towards the specific machine working on the site that this is the horizontal directional drilling facility (HDD) that has been used for laying down six meters beneath the sea bed that is 15 meters below from sea surface, over 1 kilometre pipeline from the LNG terminal site up to Fotco terminal from where it appears on the surface and goes to the tie-in site (delivery point) situated 14 kilometers away from Fotco terminal.
At the delivery point, the re-gasified imported product will be made at par with the specifications of the system gas prior to injecting it to the gas network system of the country. Out of 14 kilometers pipeline, it travels four kilometers distance along with the trestle of Fotco facility. This means the 15 kilometers long pipeline with 30 inches diameter has been laid down.
In this project of paramount importance, Pakistan is having the first ever brand new FSRU constructed by Samsung Heavy Industries, owned by the BW Group at the LNG terminal established by the PGPC
Zohair Siddiqui, managing director of the company dealing with the terminal, said that Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has already inaugurated the completion of the whole infrastructure pertaining to project on November 20 and now the terminal is in the process of completion of system integration. This is the first LNG terminal set up by PGPC and under the agreement, the government is bound to provide LNG supply to the terminal and take off the re-gasified LNG of 600 mmcfd from the terminal. In addition, he said, the premier has also laid down the foundation stone of another LNG terminal to be established by PGPC at the same site with the installed capacity to re-gasify 750 mmcfd LNG, but this terminal will purely be established under private-to-private mode. And the actual ground breaking and drilling process for establishing the second LNG terminal of PGDC will start in the period between 15-20 December this year.