Guangxi LNG Terminal

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Guangxi LNG Terminal （国家管网北海LNG接收站）is an LNG import terminal in Guangxi, China.

Location

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Project details

• Owner: National Pipeline Group Beihai LNG Co., Ltd.国家管网集团北海液化天然气有限责任公司 ( once was Sinopec Beihai LNG Co., Ltd. 中石化北海液化天然气有限责任公司)
• Parent company: PipeChina 国家管网集团
• Location: Tieshan Port, Beihai, Guangxi, China
• Coordinates: 21.448966, 109.531699 (exact)
• Capacity: 3 mtpa
• Status: Operating
• Type: Import
• Start year: 2016

Background

Guangxi LNG Terminal is an LNG terminal in Guangxi, China.

Phase I of the LNG terminal began construction in 2013 and commercial operations in April 2016, with receiving capacity of 3 mtpa. LNG is supplied predominantly from Australia (APLNG) as part of a long-term supply arrangement between APLNG and Sinopec under which China’s state-owned operator has agreed to purchase 7.6 million tpy of LNG for 20 years. The project will supply China’s southwest provinces of Guangxi and western Guangdong with gas.

On September 30, 2020, Sinopec transferred this LNG terminal to newly established PipeChina, along with other pipeline assets.

On November 3, 2020, a fire accident on the site of the terminal caused 7 deaths. The accident happened only one month after the assets of the LNG terminal was transferred to PipeChina.

Ownership change

In February 9, 2019, the National Petroleum and Natural Gas Pipeline Group Co., Ltd. (PipeChina) was established with a major focus on the investment and construction of the long-distance oil and gas pipeline network and storage & peaking facilities, offering fair and open oil and gas pipeline transmission services. 10 existing and under-construction LNG terminals were reportedly transferred or are going to transfer their ownerships to PipeChina. Guangxi LNG terminal is one of them.

Expansion projects

Phase II

A future Phase II of the project could add an additional 2 mpta receiving capacity. The project received permit for construction from the provincial government in December 2018.

However, as of early 2022 there was no news that construction had begun, and it is considered shelved.

On April 29, 2022, the second phase of Beihai LNG terminal began construction. It will add two more storage tanks with 200,000 cubic meters each, increasing the storage capacity of Beihai LNG terminal from 640,000 cubic meters to 1.04 million cubic meters. The construction to increase the capacity of transportation began in 2019 and completed in 2021.

Two 200,000-square-meter storage tanks of the second phase were successfully raised to the top on September 19, 2023.

• Owner: 国家管网集团北海液化天然气有限责任公司 ( once was Sinopec Beihai LNG Co., Ltd. 中石化北海液化天然气有限责任公司)
• Parent company: PipeChina 国家管网集团
• Location: Tieshan Port, Beihai, Guangxi, China
• Coordinates: 21.448966, 109.531699 (exact)
• Capacity: 3.1 mtpa
• Status: Construction
• Type: Import
• Start year:

Phase III

A third phase of the Guangxi LNG Terminal with 0.55 bcm storage capacity has been discussed.

According to the notice for public review in March 2021, the third phase will add a receiving capacity of 6 mtpa and four storage tanks with 220,000 cubic meters each.

The third phase received permit for construction on March 15, 2021, and held a ceremony for construction at the end of 2021. It aimed the completion at the end of 2024. The construction will take place in two stages. Two storage tanks with 3 mtpa of capacity will be built first.

The supporting berth for the third phase of Beihai LNG terminal began construction in August 2023. It aimed to operate by 2025.

Beihai LNG terminal originally had two phases. One is operating, one was permitted but not yet began construction, and later PipeChina assumed control of it. The local government felt there was a need to build a new terminal in its own hand. As a result, the Autonomous Region (province) proposed this third phase and is actively pushing it forward. The owner is different from the earlier phases. The location is slightly away from the other two phases.

• Operator: Guangxi Gas Group Co., Ltd, 广西燃气集团有限公司
• Owner: Guangxi Gas Group Co., Ltd, 广西燃气集团有限公司
• Parent company: Sinopec Natural Gas Co., Ltd 中国石化天然气有限责任公司 55%, Guangxi Guangtou Energy Group Co., Ltd 广西广投能源集团有限公司 45%
• Location: Tieshan Port, Beihai, Guangxi, China
• Coordinates: 21.45062981393685, 109.52536854077394(exact)
• Capacity: 6 mtpa
• Status: Construction
• Type: Import
• Start year: 2024