Kangan LNG Terminal

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Kangan LNG Terminal, also known as Persian AMG LNG Terminal, is a cancelled (inferred 4 y) LNG export terminal in Iran.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Kangan LNG Terminal	Tombak Port, Asaluyeh County, Bushehr Province, Iran	27.476111, 52.6075 (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
Kangan LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (inferred 4 y)	2 mtpa	2.0 mtpa	False	South Pars/North Field gas field

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Kangan LNG Terminal	export	–	–

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
Kangan LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (inferred 4 y)	2015	–	–	–	2022 (cancelled)

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Kangan LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (inferred 4 y)	MahTaab Parto Kangan LNG Co [100%]	Arian MahTaab Gostar Co [100.0%]	–

Background

Kangan LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG terminal in Bushehr Province, Iran, originally proposed under the name Persian LNG Terminal. As of May 2022, MahTaab's website for the project remains active, with a commissioning date of 2024. However there have been no development updates in over four years and the project is presumed to be cancelled.

South Pars/North Field

Iran and Qatar own the South Pars/North Field, the world's largest natural gas field. This field plays a central role in Qatar and Iran foreign and domestic policy.

Iran's South Pars gas field is one of the biggest gas fields in the world. Its development was stalled by years of Western sanctions beginning in 1979. The public justification for the sanctions was Iran's bid for nuclear weapons. Economic sanctions delayed Iran's oil and gas technological development substantially. The Qatar side of the field could export LNG by ship, while Iran remains unable to. As of 2017, Iran lacked the capability to freeze its natural gas into LNG in order to load onto tanker ships for export. Iran aimed to increase gas output to 1 trillion cubic meters by 2018. In 2012, before sanctions, its output was at 160.5 billion cubic meters.

In 2017 the French Owned Total signed a 20-year contract with the National Iranian Oil Company to develop phase 11 of South Pars. Total became the first major Western oil company to sign an energy agreement with Iran's sanctions eased.

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