Re: Plan finalised:LNG based 5,600MW Projects
there is much more to imported LNG based gas plants than the price of gas…most importantly how will gas reach to the power plant?
first, you need to secure a long term gas supply agreement either from a NOC (qatar) or IOC (shell etc)…
secon, you need a partner who is willing to bear the cost of transporting the gas from source to a port terminal, put liquafication terminals in place to convent gas into liquid form and then ship this liquified gas in a LNG carrier to Pakistani port…
third, pakistani govt or its partner needs to put in place regasification terminals at the port to convert liquified gas back into gaseous form and then willing to put pipelin to transport gas to the desired power plant
fourth, govt needs an EPC (engineering, procurement, construction ) partner to design and build the gas power plant plus buy expensive gas turbine
firth, the govt needs to secure a viable power purchase contract from its partner as well as put appropriate transmission & distribution infrastructure to supply power to different areas of the country
On paper, all of this can achievable but from a practical perspective and given unsafe business conditions in pakistan, i doubt it will be easy to find financier and a partner but lets hope for the best