Gioia Tauro LNG Terminal

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Gioia Tauro LNG Terminal, also known as Trinitapoli LNG Terminal, is a proposed LNG import terminal in Italy.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Gioia Tauro LNG Terminal	Trinitapoli, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, Italy	38.46692, 15.899 (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
Gioia Tauro LNG Terminal	import	proposed	8.82 mtpa	8.82 mtpa	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Gioia Tauro LNG Terminal	import	US$1,090,000,000 (1,000,000,000 EUR)	US$1,090,000,000

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
Gioia Tauro LNG Terminal	import	proposed	2005	–	–	–	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Gioia Tauro LNG Terminal	import	proposed	LNG Medgas Terminal SRL	Iren Group; Sorgenia	–

Background

Gioia Tauro LNG Terminal is a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Calabria, Italy. It is a project of LNG Medgas, a joint venture of Italian firms IRIDE (a subsidiary of the Iren Group) and Sorgenia. The project would cost approximately €1 billion according to an estimate in 2022 from Iren and Sorgenia.

The environmental impact study of the project was submitted in October 2005. In March 2013, the Gioia Tauro Port Committee granted public domain for the project.

As of September 2017, the project had "progressed at a glacial pace," but was apparently not dead, with company officials still pushing for the project — and pushing for EU funds to help subsidize it.

In October 2020 Medgas Italia's 29.22% stake in the project was scheduled to be auctioned off in bankruptcy court for €6.9 million, implying that the project might still be revived. Meanwhile, as of January 2021, Italian gas distributor Snam's latest 10-year development plan (2020-2029) continues to specifically list the terminal as "authorized." With no further concrete developments since late 2017, the project was presumed to be shelved.

In March 2022, as a result of crisis moves around Europe to end imports of Russian gas following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, LNG MedGas said it was reviving plans to build the LNG import terminal in Gioia Tauro. If accelerated, LNG MedGas said, the project could be commissioned as soon as 2026. Jointly promoted by Sorgenia and Iren, the project completed the required permitting process several years ago before it was put on standby. A spokesman for Iren said of the new potential development: "We are working with the authorities to see if the permits are confirmed."

It was reported in May 2022 that the Italian government was in favour of the project.

In November 2023, Italy passed a law that deems “strategic interventions of public utility" as "non-deferrable and urgent” in Porto Empedocle LNG Terminal and Gioia Tauro LNG Terminal and would accelerate the two projects.

The project resurfaced in the media in June 2026, when Calabria's regional president Roberto Occhiuto confirmed continued regional interest — largely due to the terminal's planned cold-plate component: a system that would capture the cold energy released during regasification and repurpose it for industrial refrigeration, supporting the region's agri-food cold-storage industry. However, he suggested that Iren and Sorgenia, the project's original backers, no longer intend to proceed. As a result, the region is now exploring whether Snam — Italy's national gas grid operator, which manages the country's pipeline network and holds stakes in other LNG terminals like Adriatic LNG — might take over the project instead.

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