WCC LNG Terminal

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WCC LNG Terminal, also known as Tuck Inlet, is a cancelled (confirmed) LNG export terminal in Canada.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
WCC LNG Terminal	Tuck Inlet, Prince Rupert, Kaien Island, British Columbia, Canada	54.312194, -130.327083 (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
WCC LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (confirmed)	30 mtpa	30.0 mtpa	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
WCC 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
WCC LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (confirmed)	–	–	–	–	2018 (cancelled)

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
WCC LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (confirmed)	Imperial Oil Resources Ltd [50%]; Exxon Mobil Corp [50%]	Exxon Mobil Corp [50.0%]; Imperial Oil Ltd [50.0%]	–

Background

WCC LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG terminal in British Columbia, Canada. The proposal includes six production trains.

"WCC LNG is backed by Exxon Mobil and Imperial Oil, an Alberta-based petroleum company partially owned by Exxon. The oil giant plans to site the facility at Tuck Inlet, less than ten kilometers north of Prince Rupert. The proposed site abuts the Woodworth Lake Conservancy, which protects the domestic water supply for the city of Prince Rupert and safeguards important salmon spawning grounds. Exxon hopes the facility will produce up to 30 million metric tons of LNG per year. The project may use one of the pipelines associated with other LNG proposals in the Prince Rupert area. The NEB has approved WCC LNG’s application to extend its export license from 25 years to 40 years, but Exxon and Imperial have not made a final investment decision. In fact, the project backers announced in December 2017 that the project would be “moving at a slower pace” throughout 2018 due to market conditions and economic uncertainties, and closed the project’s Prince Rupert office," according to the Sightline Institute's January 2018 report, "Update: Mapping BC’s LNG Proposals."

In December 2018, ExxonMobil shelved the project, and with no updates since that time, is now presumed to be cancelled.

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