Project Profile
Value: undisclosed
Location: Yongan Township, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Capacity: 7.5 million tons/annum
Start-up: 2010
The terminal is located at Kaohsiung county in Taiwan. The LNG terminal began operations with 1.5 million tons capacity in 2010. In 1996, terminal expanded to 4.0 million tons and in 2002, terminal expanded to 7.44 million tons. In 2011, Shell and CPC announce LNG sales deal that will see Shell become one the main suppliers of LNG to Taiwan. Shell Eastern Trading (Pte.) Ltd, trading as Shell Eastern LNG (Shell), and CPC Corporation, Taiwan (CPC) have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) for the long-term supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Shell’s global LNG portfolio. With this HOA Shell will supply two million tonnes per annum for 20 years starting in 2016. The agreements were signed recently by CPC and Shell in Taipei and Singapore respectively and exchanged by the parties in Taipei. The Yung-An terminal is Taiwan’s first liquefied natural gas receiving terminal, and it is operated by CPC.
Operator:
CPC Taiwan: Operator with 100% interest