Skeena LNG Terminal

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Skeena LNG Terminal is a cancelled (inferred 4 y) LNG export terminal in Canada.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Skeena LNG Terminal	Skeena, British Columbia, Canada	54.49342, -128.587023 (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
Skeena LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (inferred 4 y)	0.15 mtpa	0.15 mtpa	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Skeena 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
Skeena LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (inferred 4 y)	–	–	–	–	2025 (cancelled)

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Skeena LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (inferred 4 y)	Top Speed Energy Holding Ltd [100%]	unknown [55.0%]; China Sunshine Paper Holdings Co Ltd [45.0%]	–

Background

Top Speed Energy, a Chinese company based in Vancouver, planned to build an LNG liquefaction plant in Terrace, Canada to truck gas to remote communities, mines, and the Prince Rupert port for shipment overseas. The facility would be built adjacent to the Northwest Terrace Regional Airport.

In September 2020, Top Speed Energy was seeking permits for the project, known as Skeena LNG, from the BC Oil and Gas Commission with plans to start construction in the spring of 2021. The project won’t undergo an environmental assessment, which British Columbia regulatory stipulations only require if a proposed LNG facility has a storage capacity of more than 136,000 cubic meters of LNG. Skeena LNG is considered a small project, and would have much less capacity than that threshold.

The liquefaction facility will be built in an industrial site near the Terrace airport. A small feeder pipeline will connect the plant to an existing pipeline owned by Pacific Northern Gas, a company that primarily supplies natural gas to residential customers across northwest B.C. Skeena LNG will use electricity supplied by BC Hydro to power its operations.

Top Speed Energy plans to provide LNG to remote and First Nations communities and mines in northwest B.C., which currently produce electricity with diesel generators. To accomplish this, fuel will be transported via truck, which is more flexible than pipeline distribution, but also raises safety concerns. While accidents are rare, transporting LNG by truck allows for the possibility of LNG vapor escaping the shipping containers and causing a fire or explosion if ignited, potentially close to residential communities.

In September 2021, it was reported that Top Speed Energy would be divesting from the Skeena LNG Terminal project following the death of the company's founder. A permit application for the project remains active. Without a sponsor the project is inferred to be shelved.

As of June 2025, there had not been any project updates in over four years, and the project is inferred to be cancelled.

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