QatarEnergy announced it has entered into a 20-year LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Petronet LNG for the supply of 7.5mn tonnes per year (MTPY) of LNG destined to India.
Pursuant the terms of the SPA, the contracted LNG volumes from Qatar will be delivered ex-ship to terminals across India onboard QatarEnergy’s vast LNG fleet starting May 2028.
The signing of the SPA was celebrated during a special ceremony held in Goa, India under the patronage of HE the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, Saad bin Sherida al-Kaabi, also the President and CEO of QatarEnergy, and Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, and Housing & Urban Affairs.
In attendance were Pankaj Jain, secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas and chairman of Petronet LNG; Sandeep Kumar Gupta, chairman and managing director, GAIL (India); Shrikant Madhav Vaidya, chairman, Indian Oil Corporation; and Krishnakumar Gopalan, chairman and managing director, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited.
To mark this important achievement, a document commemorating the occasion was signed by Akshay Kumar Singh, managing director & CEO, Petronet LNG Limited and Abdulla Ahmad al-Hussaini, QatarEnergy’s executive vice-president (Marketing).
In remarks welcoming the successful conclusion of the SPA, al-Kaabi said: “This agreement is another key milestone in the long-standing energy partnership between Qatar and India and comes on the heels of the 20th anniversary of the first LNG shipment to India.”
Al-Kaabi added: “We believe that this new agreement, with our valued customers Petronet LNG and its esteemed shareholder companies, will further strengthen the relationship with India and support its vision to increase the contribution of natural gas in its energy mix.”
Petronet first entered into an agreement for the supply of LNG from Qatar in 1999 for the delivery of 7.5 MTPY.
It was followed in 2015 by another agreement for the supply of an additional 1 MTPY of LNG, raising the total annual long-term volumes contracted between the two sides to 8.5 MTPY.
The signing of the SPA was celebrated during a special ceremony held in Goa, India under the patronage of HE the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, Saad bin Sherida al-Kaabi, also the President and CEO of QatarEnergy, and Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, and Housing & Urban Affairs.
