Penn LNG Terminal

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Penn LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG export terminal in United States.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Penn LNG Terminal	Chester, Pennsylvania, United States	39.837705, -75.370597 (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
Penn LNG Terminal	export	proposed	7 mtpa	7.0 mtpa	False	Marcellus shale

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Penn LNG Terminal	export	US$6,400,000,000	US$6,400,000,000

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
Penn LNG Terminal	export	proposed	2017	2024 (Pre-FID)	–	–	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Penn LNG Terminal	export	proposed	Penn America Energy Holdings LLC [100%]	Penn America Energy Holdings LLC [100.0%]	–

Background

Since 2017, Penn America Energy has been quietly working to line up support for a US$6.4 billion LNG project that would export gas from the Marcellus shale. The developers are seeking to build the facility on the Chester waterfront, and have targeted a 60-acre waterfront site now occupied by a warehouse complex.

In August 2022, Natural Gas Intelligence reported that the developers were seeking to pre-file with federal regulators by the end of the year, and that they were anticipating a final investment decision (FID) by 2024.

Chester is an environmental justice community that has suffered from pollution, health problems, and socioeconomic disadvantages. The median household income is less than US$33,000 a year.

In February 2024, WHYY reported that the project's prospects were in limbo following the Biden Administration's announcement of a pause on non-Free Trade Agreement export authorizations for LNG terminals. The CEO of Penn America Energy had already "pumped the breaks" following public opposition, but said that he was still planning to advance the proposal. A month earlier, Chestor's mayor had called the project "dead in the water."

In June 2025, Penn America Energy met with White House officials regarding the project. The company's chief executive said that the project would "requires a great deal of support, not only politically in the state, but also with communities," according to Oil Price.

As of February 2026, the project appeared to be dead, according to reporting from Marcellus Drilling and Natural Gas Intelligence. The sponsor Penn America Energy has been dissolved, and the project had failed to line up contractors, feed gas, permits, financing, or buyers.

Opposition

According to WHYY, in August 2023, Penn LNG has "faced a torrent of opposition," including at meetings of Philadelphia's LNG Task Force. In April 2023, environmentalists protesting the projects said they were blocked from attending a task force meeting. The founder of Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL) said, “Many were able to build their wealth off of Chester’s economy...Wealth is still being built in Chester. Now only, it is at the price and a cost of our health, our homes being devalued, and our quality of life being diminished.”

A November 2023 article from Environmental Health News described opposition to the project. An incinerator and other industrial facilities have "driven residents indoors or out of town," in "what was once a proud and neighborly community." Childhood asthma rates in the community are over three times the national average. According to Tracy Carluccio, deputy director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, "There’s no place to put it that is not going to be an unbearable, intolerable burden for the people who live near it."

WHYY reported that the Chestor's mayor was opposed to the project's potential impact on the predominantly-Black community: "It eliminates the possibility of a corporation or an operation coming to town that is not consistent with my vision for the future of the city,” [Mayor] Roots said. Roots referred to the proposed LNG facility as an 'insult' to the predominantly Black city of Chester, assuming the community would accept another polluting industry in exchange for construction jobs."

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