Tenerife LNG Terminal

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Tenerife LNG Terminal, also known as Granadilla LNG Terminal, is a cancelled (confirmed) LNG import terminal in Spain.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Tenerife LNG Terminal	Granadilla de Abona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain	28.116667, -16.566667 (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
Tenerife LNG Terminal	import	cancelled (confirmed)	0.96 mtpa	0.96 mtpa	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Tenerife LNG Terminal	import	US$327,000,000 (300,000,000 EUR)	US$327,000,000

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
Tenerife LNG Terminal	import	cancelled (confirmed)	2008	2008 (FID)	–	–	2022 (cancelled)

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Tenerife LNG Terminal	import	cancelled (confirmed)	Enagás SA [100%]	Enagás SA [100.0%]	–

Background

In December 2008, Gascan awarded a consortium formed by Tecnicas Reunidas and Acciona a contract on a "lump sum turnkey" basis for the construction of the Tenerife LNG terminal and the Gran Canaria LNG Terminal.

The Tenerife LNG terminal is technically identical to the Gran Canaria LNG Terminal. It is planned to include a storage tank with a capacity of 150,000 m³, three low pressure pumps, three high pressure pumps, two lines of Open Rack Vaporizers and a back-up submerged combustion vaporizer, a flare for emergency discharges, buildings, and a jetty capable to receive LNG carriers with a capacity up to 145,000 m³. The project was expected to cost approximately €300 million. A second, similarly-sized storage tank is planned to be added in a second phase of development.

After development stalled, it was relaunched in 2012 with an expected completion date by the start of 2015 after intervention by Spanish energy minister José Manuel Soria.

In November 2014, the port of Tenerife was awarded a €400,000 grant from the European Union to conduct a year-long feasibility study on constructing an LNG bunkering hub.

In 2015 Spain's natural gas grid owner and operator Enagás acquired a 100% stake in Gascan, the terminal's original developer. Previously, Gascan had been jointly owned by Endesa (47.18%), Enagas (41.94%), and Sodecan, a public company owned by the Canary government (10.88%).

In April 2015, the Supreme Court of Spain issued judgment No. 154, resulting in the project construction being halted. The decision upheld an application by local ecologists that argued that the project developers failed to complete a full environmental assessment prior to securing planning permission. The court's decision required Enagás to reinitiate the permitting process for the Tenerife terminal. In July 2016 the project was granted a new favorable Declaration of Economic Impact.

In February 2017, Enagás announced that it still planned to invest €260 million in the Tenerife LNG Terminal. However, in October 2017, Spain's National Commission of Markets and Competition issued a report urging that the plant not be built without further evaluation of its long-term economic viability. In March 2018 Spain's Supreme Court dealt a further blow to the project, ruling against an appeal from Enagás and upholding its previous decision that the original 2012 authorization for the plant's construction granted to Gascan by the Ministry of Industry was invalid. Based on statements in subsequent company reports, Enagás appeared to have shelved the project. By 2022, the project no longer featured on ENTSOG's Ten Year Network Development Plan database.

In its 2024 Annual Report, Enagás confirmed that in 2022, the project received its final strike down from the Spanish High Court of Justice. The company filed for an asset liability claim in order to recover costs already incurred on the project.

Opposition to LNG terminals in Spain

Opposition groups have cited the low utilization rates among Spain's LNG terminals to call into question the necessity of such extensive LNG infrastructure. According to Food and Water Europe in 2019 (prior to the re-opening of El Musel LNG Terminal), "Since 2008, all LNG terminals (except for Mugardos) have been expanded and the total regasification capacity has increased by 8%, despite a decline in gas demand...even though the utilisation rate of Spain’s LNG regasification capacity was at only ~23% on average between January 2012 and March 2019, same as the low EU average during the same time period! The need to have so much LNG regasification capacity is questionable and best illustrated with the El Musel LNG Terminal (7bcm/y and a 300,000m³ storage capacity) which was completed in 2012 and then directly put into 'hibernation', 'until demand picks up'. The terminal has not been used since then. Despite large underutilization, Spain was the 5th biggest LNG importer with the 5th biggest liquefaction capacities worldwide in 2018, and for both cases number 1 in Europe (followed by France). Since at least 2016, Spain repeatedly imported cargoes of fracked US gas through its LNG terminals."

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