India’s Top Gas Utility Seeks to Defer Gazprom LNG Contract

  • GAIL insists on supplies from Gazprom’s Shtokman project
  • Indian company willing to take some LNG at renegotiated rates
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GAIL India Ltd. is seeking to defer a 20-year contract to buy liquefied natural gas from Gazprom PJSC until the Russian company’s ShtokmanBloomberg Terminal project begins production, officials at the South Asian country’s biggest gas transporter said.

New Delhi-based GAIL signed a contract in 2012 to buy 2.5 million metric tons a year of LNG from Gazprom starting in 2018 and 2019. The Russian exporter was to supply LNG from the Shtokman project under the contract, according to GAIL’s website.