Qilak LNG Terminal

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

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Qilak LNG Terminal	North Slope, Alaska, United States	70.1734, -146.2563 (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
Qilak LNG Terminal	export	proposed	4 mtpa	4.0 mtpa	True	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Qilak LNG Terminal	export	US$4,500,000,000	US$4,500,000,000

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
Qilak LNG Terminal	export	proposed	–	2025 (Pre-FID)	–	2033	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Qilak LNG Terminal	export	proposed	Qilak LNG Inc [100%]	Qilak LNG Inc [100.0%]	–

Background

Phase 1 of the Qilak LNG project will have an export capacity of 4 million tonnes per year (MTPA) with additional unspecified capacity planned to come online in future phases, as determined by gas supply and global demand. The project will deliver natural gas to Asian markets, including Japan, Korea, China, and the Philippines. An extensive feasibility study will begin in 2020, with the target of reaching an final investment decision (FID) by 2022. The first gas shipments could begin in 2026 or 2027. In July 2021, Qilak's Chairman and CEO Mead Treadwell said that the pandemic had slowed down the formal feasibility study, delaying the initial targeted FID in 2022.

The project plans to use gravity-base structures, special weighted legs that support offshore platforms, set off the Arctic shore of Alaska and would deliver three to five tankers per month to Asia, according to the sponsor.

In March 2023, the project was still active, and its sponsors said that the smaller facility would be competitive with Russia's Yamal LNG Terminal.

According to a March 2025 Reuters story on the project, the cost is now estimated to be between US$4 billion and US$5 billion, and its planned start year is now 2033.

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Additional data

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