Aurora LNG Terminal

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Aurora LNG Terminal was a proposed LNG terminal in British Columbia, Canada on Digby Island, west of Prince Rupert.

Location

Aurora LNG would have been sited at Delusion Bay on Digby Island, adjacent to the community of Dodge Cove.

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Project details

• Owner: CNOOC; INPEX; JGC Holdings Corporation (formerly Japanese Gasoline Co)
• Parent company: CNOOC; INPEX; JGC Holdings Corporation (formerly Japanese Gasoline Co)
• Location: Delusion Bay, Digby Island, British Columbia, Canada
• Coordinates: 54.284, -130.417 (approximate)
• Capacity: 24 mtpa, 3.44 bcfd (12 mtpa per train)
• Status: Cancelled
• Type: Export
• Trains: 2
• Start year:

Background

Aurora LNG Terminal was a proposed LNG terminal in British Columbia, Canada. In summer of 2017 the terminal was in the independent environmental assessment process, which was being led by the BC Environmental Assessment Office. The project was cancelled in September of 2017, however, when Aurora LNG backed out of the plan, saying the current economy did not support a large LNG operation on Digby Island.

The primary project backer was Nexen Energy, a subsidiary of CNOOC, China’s top LNG importer and one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies. Other backers included Japanese companies INPEX, an LNG supplier to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan; and JGC, formerly known as Japanese Gasoline Corporation and now an engineering company that builds LNG facilities. The facility would have produced 24 million tons of LNG per year at full build-out.