LNG Chain

Import terminal · Gangwon-do, South Korea

Samcheok LNG Terminal

Samcheok LNG Terminal is an operating LNG import terminal in Gangwon-do, South Korea. The tracker lists 2 tracked units with 11.6 Mtpa operating, the earliest starting in 2014. It is owned by KOGAS.

Operating

11.6 Mtpa

15.8 bcm/y · 2 units

Under construction

no units under construction

Proposed

no units proposed

At a glance

State / province
Gangwon-do
Region
Not reported
Import / export
Import
Onshore / floating
Not reported
Status (rolled up)
Operating
Trains / phases tracked
2
Earliest start year
2014
Latest start year
2016
Coordinates
37.1683° N, 129.3502° E
GEM terminal ID
T100000130314
GEM wiki page
gem.wiki

Trains and phases

Each row is one unit as tracked by GEM. Ordered by start year, then proposal year.

UnitStatusCapacity (Mtpa)Capacity (bcm/y)StartProposedFIDOwner (as reported)
Not reportedOperating6.68.982014Not reportedKorea Gas Corp [100%]
Unit ExpansionOperating56.82016Not reportedKorea Gas Corp [100%]

Capacity by status

StatusUnitsMtpabcm/y
Operating211.615.8

Owners and operators

Stakes as reported by GEM per unit, merged across units. Percentages are omitted where GEM does not give them.

Owners

Location

Samcheok LNG Terminal at 37.1683° N, 129.3502° E.

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Coordinates
37.1683° N, 129.3502° E
Coordinate accuracy (GEM)
exact
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Connected gas pipelines

Tracked pipelines whose route passes within 25 km of this terminal, or whose name matches it. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection.

No tracked gas pipeline passes within 25 km of this terminal in the current release.

Supplied via

Chokepoints that cargoes arriving at this terminal typically cross, based on where its region is supplied from.

  • Strait of Malacca
  • Strait of Hormuz
  • Panama Canal
  • Lombok Strait
  • Taiwan Strait

Cargoes reach north-east Asia from the Middle East, Australia, the United States and Russia, so exposure is spread.

Routing is an editorial model of typical laden voyages, held in a hand-maintained lane table. It is not vessel tracking, and it does not account for diversions, canal draught limits, ice class or seasonal closures. See methodology, or take the machine-readable exposure feed. Links to the Chokepoints site are inactive until its domain is set in the environment.