Atlantic Coast LNG Terminal

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Atlantic Coast LNG Terminal (also known as AC LNG Terminal) is a proposed LNG terminal in Nova Scotia, Canada.

There have been no development updates since January 2016 and the project is presumed to be cancelled.

Location

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Project Details

• Owner: AC LNG
• Parent: Hiranandani Group
• Location: Byers Cove, in Middle Melford, Nova Scotia
• Coordinates: 45.548673, -61.334441 (approximate)
• Capacity: 16 mtpa, 2.29 bcfd
• Status: Cancelled
• Type: Export
• Start Year: 2024

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

Background

Atlantic Coast LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG terminal in Nova Scotia, Canada. In December 2015, Canada's National Energy Board granted the project a 25-year import/export license. The permit would allow the terminal to import 2.3 Bcf/d from the US and to export up to 2 Bcf/d from a terminal in Nova Scotia.

The project will be located at Byers Cove, in Middle Melford, Nova Scotia. Commercial Operation date of the project is Q1 2023. AC LNG has secured an option agreement with the Province of Nova Scotia for approximately 370 acres of land at Byers Cove in the Melford Industrial Reserve, located in eastern Nova Scotia, Canada, on the Strait of Canso and near the Maritime and Northeast Pipeline. AC LNG is evaluating the prospect of sourcing feed gas supply from the United States, Western and Eastern Canada. The gas will be transported to the proposed project via a Canadian transportation route or a U.S. transportation route.

The facility would be built and owned by Hiranandani Group of Mumbai, India, through a subsidiary company called Atlantic Coast (or AC) LNG Inc. The plan is to build the facility in Nova Scotia and use primarily Marcellus/Utica gas imported from the United States via the Maritimes & Northeast Gas Pipeline (M&NE).

There have been no development updates since January 2016 and the project is presumed to be cancelled.

AC LNG plans to develop an LNG liquefaction project comprising a floating and onshore natural gas liquefaction plant.