Import and export balance

Direction	Terminals	Operating	Under construction
Export (liquefaction)	0	—	—
Import (regasification)	2	—	—

Figures are whole-terminal capacities in Mtpa, not adjusted for ownership stakes or utilisation.

LNG terminals in Benin

	Import / export	Type			Units
Benin FSRU	Import	FSRU	Cancelled	Not reported	1	—
Cotonou FSRU	Import	FSRU	Cancelled	Not reported	1	—

Gas pipelines crossing Benin

Any pipeline whose country list includes this country, including transit pipelines that only pass through.

	Countries				Segments
Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline	Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Spain	Proposed	5,660 km	30 bcm/y	1	2046
West African Gas Pipeline	Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Benin	Operating	678 km	2.04 bcm/y	1	2006

Chokepoint exposure

Chokepoint exposure is shown on each terminal page, taken from a hand-maintained trade-lane table. It is an editorial routing model of typical laden voyages, not vessel tracking. The exposure feed aggregates it by chokepoint.

Neighbouring countries

Countries that share a land border with this one and have tracked LNG infrastructure.

More countries in Africa

Ordered by number of tracked terminals, so countries next to each other here are of similar scale. The region is the one Global Energy Monitor gives this country's terminals.

In our rankings

Where this appears in the site's generated top lists. Each ranking page states its own method before its table.

Countries by gas pipeline lengthRanked #50 of the 50 listed

Background on the technology and the terms used on this page.

FSRU versus onshore regasification
An FSRU is a ship that stores LNG and turns it back into gas while moored, doing the job of an onshore import terminal without the onshore construction.
LNG and maritime chokepoints
A maritime chokepoint is a narrow strait or canal that a large share of seaborne trade must pass through, and LNG exposure to them depends entirely on which exporting region supplies which importing market.
How LNG works
Liquefied natural gas is natural gas chilled to about minus 162 degrees Celsius, at which point it becomes a liquid roughly 600 times smaller than the gas, so it can be shipped where no pipeline runs.
LNG against pipeline gas
A pipeline delivers gas at lower cost than LNG over land up to roughly two to four thousand kilometres, beyond which liquefaction wins, and across any significant body of deep water LNG usually wins at any distance.

Benin: LNG infrastructure