Kitsault LNG Terminal

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Kitsault LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG terminal in British Columbia, Canada. There have been no development updates in four years, and the project is presumed to be cancelled.

Location

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Project Details

• Owner:
• Parent: Kitsault Energy
• Location: Kitsault, British Columbia, Canada
• Coordinates: 55.466667, -129.483333 (approximate)
• Capacity: 20 mtpa
• Status: Cancelled
• Type: Export
• Start Year: 2019

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

Kitsault LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG terminal in British Columbia, Canada.

"Kitsault Energy would be located at the ghost town Kitsault, 85 miles north of Prince Rupert. The project backer is self-made millionaire and philanthropist Krishnan Suthanthiran, who purchased the former mining town for about $6 million in 2005. Kitsault is at the head of Alice Arm, the eastern arm of Observatory Inlet. The project’s export license application pondered an approximately 600-kilometer pipeline—most likely the backer hopes to enter a contract with either the proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Project or the proposed Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Project. Kitsault Energy’s 20-million-metric-ton-per-year LNG project is still speculative, and there have been no major developments of late," according to the Sightline Institute's 2018 report, "Update: Mapping BC’s LNG Proposals."

There have been no development updates since 2005, and the project is presumed to be cancelled.