LNG Canada Terminal
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LNG Canada is a proposed LNG terminal in British Columbia, Canada. It is currently under construction.[1]
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Location
Project Details
- Owner: LNG Canada
- Parent: Shell (50%), China National Petroleum Corporation (20%), Korea Gas (15%), Mitsubishi (15%)
- Location: Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada
- Coordinates: 54, -128.7 (approximate)
- Capacity: 24 mtpa, 3.44 bcfd
- Status: Construction
- Type: Export
- Trains: 2
- Start Year:
Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day
Background
Shell's LNG Canada Terminal is a proposed LNG facility in British Columbia, Canada.[2] It will include two processing trains, with room to add two more trains in the future, for a possible total of four trains.[3] It received the required regulatory approvals from the government in 2015.[4]
"Shell is one of the biggest players in the global LNG market, so it’s no surprise that the corporation hoped to expand its holdings with a major facility in BC. Other big names attached to the LNG Canada project include PetroChina, China’s biggest oil producer; South Korea’s KOGAS, one of the world’s largest LNG importers; and Mitsubishi, which invests in LNG production in “host countries” and acts as an import agent for Japanese customers. The companies announced in July 2016 that they would indefinitely delay a final investment decision,74 and in mid-2017, announced that a final investment decision would be made “in the next 18 months or so.” If the proposal resumes, the backers hope to produce 24 million metric tons of LNG per year, using gas from the proposed 670-kilometer Coastal GasLink pipeline leading from Dawson Creek in northeastern BC. The National Energy Board has extended LNG Canada’s export license from 25 to 40 years," according to the Sightline Institute's 2018 report, "Update: Mapping BC’s LNG Proposals."[5]
Construction activities began in October 2018, with a target in-service date of the middle of the next decade.[6]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Government of Canada Invests in Kitimat LNG Facility The Maritime Executive, June 27, 2019
- ↑ Shell British Columbia LNG Terminal, A Barrel Full, accessed April 2017
- ↑ LNG Canada Wikipedia, accessed July 18, 2019
- ↑ Government of Canada Invests in Kitimat LNG Facility The Maritime Executive, June 27, 2019
- ↑ "Update: Mapping BC's LNG Proposals" Sightline Institute, January 2018
- ↑ Government of Canada Invests in Kitimat LNG Facility The Maritime Executive, June 27, 2019
