Project Profile
Value: Undisclosed
Location: Grassy Point, British Columbia, west coast of Canada
Area: 700 hectares
Capacity: unknown
Start-up Year:
Woodside Petroleum (Woodside) and the Government of British Columbia (BC) signed an agreement to open a greenfield liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Grassy Point along the west coast of Canada. This Grassy Point project comes at the end of a list of more than ten LNG projects already announced in British Columbia. Through these LNG export projects, British Columbia sees the unique opportunity to develop its conventional and shale gas. The western coast of Canada has its own challenges to build such large LNG plants in finding ice free seawater combined with water depth allowing the access for large LNG carriers to upload the natural gas from the proposed LNG plants.
In that respect, Grassy Point is located near by Prince Rupert, thus it has been identified long time ago as one of the best spots of the Canadian western coast line to set up such large LNG facility. Woodside and British Columbia selected 700 hectares Crown land at the south of Grassy Point. For Woodside , this Grassy Point LNG project is still at early stage. Currently Woodside is assessing the feasibility study to accommodate the site selected with British Columbia Government to build a large LNG plant that could be developed in several phases. If the first conclusions are positive in favor of the Grassy Point location, Woodside will open discussions with the First Nations and local communities to move its Canada LNG project forward. In parallel, Woodside is looking for partners who should be interested in taking working interests in this Grassy Point LNG project in order to benefit from this advanced position in British Columbia.
Operators:
Woodside Petroleum (Woodside): Operator with 100% interest