Tassie Shoal LNG Terminal

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Tassie Shoal LNG Terminal, also known as Timor East LNG Terminal, is a cancelled (inferred 4 y) LNG export terminal in Australia.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Tassie Shoal LNG Terminal	Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia	-10.0512327, 130.2960983 (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
Tassie Shoal LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (inferred 4 y)	3 mtpa	3.0 mtpa	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Tassie Shoal LNG Terminal	export	US$6,280,000,000	US$6,280,000,000

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
Tassie Shoal LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (inferred 4 y)	–	–	–	–	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Tassie Shoal LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (inferred 4 y)	Melbana Energy [100%]	Melbana Energy [100.0%]	–

Background

Tassie Shoal LNG Terminal was a proposed LNG terminal in Northern Territory, Australia. It is owned by Melbana Energy (formally MEO Australia).

In 2016, Tassie Shoal LNG received environmental approval for the LNG facility and two methanol plants. The two methanol plants would have used four trillion cubic feet of raw gas over 25 years.

A June 2019 quarterly summary of activities by Melbana Energy stated that the project "remains a low-cost development option for LNG production should a means of disposing of the high CO2 content in Evans Shoal be economically achieved."

In the 2020 annual report, Melbana Energy said of Tassie Shoal LNG: "Progress for these projects is dependent on securing access to proximate gas supply on suitable commercial terms. No material progress was made in this regard during the reporting period." As such, the project is considered shelved as of 2020.

Since 2020, the project has appeared in every Melbana Energy annual report as of 2026 with the same "no progress made" language.

Natural Gas in Australia

As of 2017, Australia is the second largest LNG exporter after Qatar. The country exports almost 44 million tons a year.

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Additional data

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