Bar LNG Terminal

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Bar LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG import terminal in Montenegro.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Bar LNG Terminal	Port of Bar, Montenegro	42.093367, 19.081096 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the terminal:

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Project Details

Table 2: Infrastructure details

mtpa = million tonnes per year

Name	Facility type	Status	Capacity	Total terminal capacity	Offshore	Associated infrastructure
Bar LNG Terminal	import	proposed	0.4 mtpa	0.4 mtpa	True	Bar gas power station

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Bar LNG Terminal	import	US$272,500,000 (250,000,000 EUR)	US$272,500,000

Financing

No financing data available.

Table 4: Project timeline

FID = Final Investment Decision, used by some developers to indicate a project will move forward

Name	Facility type	Status	Proposal year	FID year	Construction year	Operating year	Inactive year
Bar LNG Terminal	import	proposed	2021	2023 (Pre-FID)	–	–	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Bar LNG Terminal	import	proposed	LNG Alliance; EPCG	EPCG; LNG Alliance	–

Background

In December 2021, Singapore-based LNG Alliance signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Montenegro's state-owned power firm EPCG to conduct a feasibility study into an LNG terminal in the Port of Bar and associated LNG-to-power projects. The feasibility study will look into developing LNG-to-power projects in Bar and Podgorica. The construction of the LNG terminal would be the responsibility of LNG Alliance. The terminal will have a floating storage unit (FSU) and a capacity of 0.4 mtpa, with the possibility of modularly expanding it to 1.2 mtpa.

The Bar LNG terminal will serve Montenegro and major parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Albania, and the southern region of Hungary. The terminal will bring regasified LNG through gas pipelines to Montenegro and can support the entire Balkans through virtual pipelines, i.e., the distribution of LNG through ISO LNG Containers loaded onto trucks and trains to consumers, such as industrial clusters, LNG/CNG fuel stations, and municipalities, who are in remote locations far from the pipelines. The developers stated that they intend for the terminal to be repurposed for green ammonia in the future.

In February 2023, representatives from the governments of Montenegro and the United States discussed cooperation on energy issues, including agreeing to take action with regard to the LNG terminal. In May 2023, the Government of Montenegro signed an MOU with US companies Enerflex Energy Systems and Wethington Energy Innovation to support the construction of Bar LNG Terminal and Bar gas power station. In July 2023, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic indicated the country's interest in importing LNG via Bar LNG Terminal. In October 2023, an EU Enlargement Commissioner said in a meeting that the EU was ready to partner with Montenegro to build the LNG facility.

In February 2024, the Municipal Assembly of Bar and the national Parliamentary Committee on Tourism, Agriculture, Ecology and Spatial Planning held hearings related to the public interest of the project. In April 2024, Balkan Insight reported that the LNG terminal had been included in Montenegro's draft spatial plan, but that the government had not yet decided whether to proceed with construction. The spatial plan was again under public discussion. A May 2024 press release from the Municipality of Bar said that it was clear that the previous government had supported the LNG proposal without any feasibility study, cost-benefit analysis, or study of the impact on the environment.

As of September 2025, the terminal had been excluded from the government's Spatial Plan through 2040. In September 2025, the government of Montenegro signed a MOU with JERA to conduct a feasibility study around the development of an LNG terminal and gas-fired power plant. In January 2026, it was reported that JERA was expected to complete the feasibility study by the end of June 2026. As of July 2026, there have not been any further updates.

Opposition

In October 2023, a group of Montenegrin civil society organizations and regional partners wrote an open letter to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen expressing their concern over the EU's apparent support for the project, which would inhibit the country's energy transition. The NGOs noted that, "This LNG terminal, if built, would create a carbon lock-in for Montenegro, that the country would not be able to resolve before the 2050s...By building an LNG terminal and supporting infrastructure, Montenegro's counterintuitive pivot toward creating gas demand could introduce new economic and energy security risks for the country’s energy transition."

In March 2024, Bankwatch Network reported that there was growing local opposition to the project, evident at recent public hearings related to the project. Local residents near the proposed project site are concerned about " the high risks of accidents and health and property damage."

In February 2026, a group of 274 non-governmental organizations NGOs), citizens, experts and environmental activists sent an open letter to the government of Montenegro demanding that the LNG terminal and gas power plant project in Bar and other cities be rejected, that state resources be directed towards sustainable energy sources, that the public be transparently informed about all initiatives and potential projects related to energy, and that NGOs, activists and experts be substantially included in decision-making on these issues.

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