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GAIL will get the first cargo to start its Dabhol LNG terminal from Gazprom this month, Tripathi told reporters on the sidelines of an energy conference.
The start of the 5 million tonnes a year terminal has seen repeated delays.
With gas demand expected to grow at 14 percent in the next five years, Asia's third-largest economy is scouting for long-term LNG contracts, and aims to increase its LNG handling capacity to 50 million tonnes a year by 2017 from 13.5 million tonnes now.
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