In this period of war, the effect of Iran’s ban on oil routes is visible in India. There are queues outside gas agencies. Protests are going on on the streets in many parts of the country including Noida. Gas is not available even after booking. People have blocked the road. Amidst the shortage of gas in the country, the route through which the gas reaches India is also in discussion. India produces 40 percent gas within the country and imports 60 percent from abroad.
India has been dependent on West Asia for a long time for cooking gas. Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait are the countries from where India imports the most LPG. There is a distance of about 2500 kilometers between India and Qatar. 90 percent of the gas that India imports reaches India by sea route, crossing the Strait of Hormuz. Now the question is how does LPG reach India from 2500 kilometers.
How does gas reach India?
LPG is not transported in the form in which it is used in kitchen. LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is made up of butane and propane. It is transported to India through sea. Interestingly, there are special types of carrier ships for transportation. To bring LPG, it is first converted into liquid form.
The gas is compressed and converted into liquid, in this way it takes up less space and more LPG can be transported. After converting gas into liquid, it becomes easier to transport.
Lines for cooking gas.
However, this process is not as easy as it seems. While converting gas into liquid, temperature and pressure have to be maintained so that its properties do not change. LPG reaches Dahej in Gujarat, Mangalore in Karnataka and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh via the Strait of Hormuz and Arabian Sea. From here LPG is filled into the storage tank through pipeline. Then it is sent to the bottling plant by tanker truck or rail tanker. In the bottling plant, it is filled in cylinders and delivered to homes.
Indian ship.
Why do accidents not happen?
When a country sends LPG, it takes care of many things so that an accident does not happen. For this, before loading of LPG, nitrogen gas is filled in the cargo tank so that oxygen can be completely removed and the explosion caused by it can be prevented. Not only this, where the gas is converted into liquid and stored, it is cooled slowly so that it is not affected by heat. All this happens before loading.
Ships are equipped with onboard plants to convert any LPG that vaporizes during import into liquid. Through these, temperature and pressure are maintained.
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