Qeshm Island LNG Terminal

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Yemen LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG terminal in Qeshm Island, Iran. There have been no development updates in two years and the project is presumed to be shelved.

Location

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Project Details

• Parent: Tak-Iranian Gas Company
• Location: Balhaf, Shabwah, Yemen
• Coordinates: 26.951056, 55.752355 (approximate)
• Capacity:
• Status: Shelved
• Type: Export
• Start Year:

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

Background

Speaking to reporters in June of 2017, Advisor to Managing Director of Qeshm Free Zone for oil and energy affairs Mohammad Javad Dehqani said that the capacity for the first phase of the gas complex will be 2,000 tons with a 250-million-dollar investment.

Qeshm Island is part of the Iranian government’s Free Enterprise Zone, specifically targeting foreign investment. The area contains a number of the country’s oil and gas fields and has been put forward for refinery construction before. The island is the centre of a huge amount of infrastructure investment. Among other things, the enhanced port facilities will be useful to the refinery both during its own construction and during its operation. There are two vast gas fields near the Qeshm Island. One is ‘Gurzin’ field which yields two million cubic metres of sweet gas annually for the power plant of Bandar Abbas and the other is the untapped field of ‘Salakh’ whose reserves are believed to be more than the former field. According to the public authorities, the oil to be found near the plant is low in sulphur.

There have been no development updates in two years and the project is presumed to be shelved.