THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF POWER(SHRI BHARATSINH SOLANKI)
(a) : The plant-wise demand/requirement and supply of natural gas to
various power plants of various States, including Gujarat, during the last three
years and current year are given in attached Annex.
(b) : The gas supplies from the Western Region Basin in Gujarat
onshore fields to various power plants by GAIL during 2009-10 are as below:
Sl.No. Name of Plant Gas Supply in MMSCMD
1. Gandhar CCPP (NTPC) 0.36
2. Baroda CCPP (GIPCL) 0.13
3. Dhuvaran CCPP (GSEC) 0.12
4. Uttran CCPP (GSEC) 0.20 Total 0.81
Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited (GSPCL) is supplying
around 0.64 MMSCMD of gas to Hazira CCPP of GSEG from GSPC-Niko operated
Hazira Gas field near Surat.
(c) & (d) : As informed by NTPC, they are presently in a position to meet the
fuel requirement of its existing gas based stations for uninterrupted power
generation. Declared Capability (DC) by NTPC`s gas stations and Scheduled
generation (SG) during the current year (April-June`2010) are given below:-
Station Declared Capability (%) Scheduled on gas including RLNG generation (%)
Anta 82.21 76.29
Auraiya 88.01 80.79
Dadri 90.84 85.36
Faridabad 73.42 69.43
Kawas 83.31 78.92
Gandhar 89.46 84.68
At all gas stations, Scheduled generation (SG) is lower than
Declared Capability (DC) mainly due to less drawl schedule by beneficiaries.
With the following arrangements, NTPC is presently in a position
to meet the fuel requirement of its existing gas based stations and, there is no
generation loss at NTPC gas stations on account of less gas supply:-
(i) NTPC has long-term Agreements with M/s GAIL for supply of 14.48
MMSCMD (including 1.77 MMSCMD of PMT gas at APM price) of gas under
APM category. However, owing to gas shortage, the delivered quantities
have fallen short of the contracted quantities. The gas supplies under
APM category for the period 2009-10 & 2010-11(upto June`10) have been
9.08 & 9.43 MMSCMD respectively.
(ii) EGOM (Empowered Group of Ministers) have allocated 4.46 MMSCMD KG
D6 gas for NTPC`s NCR stations, viz. Anta, Auraiya, Dadri and Faridabad.
Out of 4.46 MMSCMD, NTPC has contracted 2.30 MMSCMD of KG D6 gas
so far, without prejudice to NTPC vs. RIL court case in Bombay High
Court pertaining to gas supplies for Kawas & Gandhar expansion
projects. For the balance allocated 2.16 MMSCMD KG D6 gas, NTPC is in
discussions with M/s RIL & M/s GAIL for supply & transportation of this
quantity of gas.
(iii) Agreements for supply of 2.5 MMSCMD (2.0 MMSCMD on firm basis and
0.5 MMSCMD on fallback basis) RLNG with M/s GAIL.
(iv) Apart from the above firm tie-ups, NTPC is having Fallback RLNG supply
agreements with M/s IOCL, M/s BPCL & M/s GSPC and arrangement to
procure spot RLNG from domestic suppliers based on stations`
requirement.
(e) & (f) : For expeditious commissioning of the Kawas & Gandhar
expansion projects which is pending since middle of 2005, Ministry of Power
has requested Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOP&NG) on 23.07.2010 to
place before the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGOM) with the proposal for
allocation of gas 12 Million Metric Standard Cubic Meter Per Day (MMSCMD).
The response of MOP&NG is awaited.
