OceanWay LNG Terminal

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OceanWay LNG Terminal is a cancelled (confirmed) LNG import terminal in United States.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
OceanWay LNG Terminal	Los Angeles, California, United States	33.774258, -118.687825 (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
OceanWay LNG Terminal	import	cancelled (confirmed)	9.2 mtpa	9.2 mtpa	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
OceanWay LNG Terminal	import	–	–

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
OceanWay LNG Terminal	import	cancelled (confirmed)	–	–	–	–	2013 (cancelled)

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
OceanWay LNG Terminal	import	cancelled (confirmed)	Woodside Energy Group Ltd [100%]	Woodside Energy Group Ltd [100.0%]	–

Description

In January of 2019, Woodside Petroleum suspended its proposed OceanWay LNG import terminal off the Californian coast near Los Angeles. The announcement came just weeks after Woodside said it would continue the project at reduced size, citing current market conditions. The decision was made in the face of rising US domestic gas production and lower gas prices. In December 2008 Woodside reduced the number of regasification tankers for the project from two to one citing community and regulatory concerns as well as a perceived fall in customer demand. The plan involved bringing LNG from Woodside's Australian gas projects, converting the LNG back to natural gas in regasification tankers and unloading the gas through underwater buoys 45 km off Los Angeles. The gas was to be piped into the southern Californian network via a hub at Los Angeles International Airport.

There have been no development updates since 2009 and it is presumed to be cancelled.

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