Country
South Africa: LNG infrastructure
South Africa has 6 LNG terminals and 14 tracked gas pipelines in the Global Energy Monitor tracker. It operates no LNG terminal capacity, and none is under construction.
Export capacity
—
no export terminal tracked
Import capacity
—
operating regasification
Pipelines
14
8,604 km tracked
Fleet
0
0 owned from here (flag not reported this release)
Import and export balance
| Direction | Terminals | Operating | Under construction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Export (liquefaction) | 0 | — | — |
| Import (regasification) | 6 | — | — |
Figures are whole-terminal capacities in Mtpa, not adjusted for ownership stakes or utilisation.
LNG terminals in South Africa
| Import / export | Type | Units | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coega FSRUEastern Cape | Import | FSRU | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Mossel Bay FSRUWestern Cape | Import | FSRU | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Ngqura LNG TerminalEastern Cape | Import | Not reported | Proposed | 2.8 Mtpaproposed | 1 | — |
| Richards Bay FSRUKwaZulu-Natal | Import | FSRU | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Richards Bay Transnet FSRUKwaZulu-Natal | Import | FSRU | Proposed | 4.6 Mtpaproposed | 2 | — |
| Saldanha Bay FSRUWestern Cape | Import | FSRU | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
Gas pipelines crossing South Africa
Any pipeline whose country list includes this country, including transit pipelines that only pass through.
| Countries | Segments | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African Renaissance Gas PipelineCabo Delgado → Gauteng | Mozambique, South Africa | Proposed | 614 km | 22.5 bcm/y | 1 | 2026 |
| GasNosu North–South Gas PipelineCabo Delgado → KwaZulu-Natal | Mozambique, South Africa | Shelved | 2,600 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Mozambique-South Africa Gas Pipeline | Mozambique, South Africa | Operating | 865 km | 5.52 bcm/y | 1 | 2004 |
| Phased Gas Pipeline NetworkǁKaras → Northern Cape | South Africa, Namibia | Proposed | 411 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Phased Gas Pipeline NetworkEastern Cape → KwaZulu-Natal | South Africa | Proposed | 700 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Phased Gas Pipeline NetworkWestern Cape → Eastern Cape | South Africa | Proposed | 353 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Phased Gas Pipeline NetworkKwaZulu-Natal → Mpumalanga/Free State | South Africa | Proposed | 515 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Phased Gas Pipeline NetworkWestern Cape → Western Cape | South Africa | Proposed | 85 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Phased Gas Pipeline NetworkWestern Cape → Western Cape | South Africa | Proposed | 425 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Phased Gas Pipeline NetworkNorthern Cape → Western Cape | South Africa | Proposed | 153 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Phased Gas Pipeline Network | South Africa | Proposed | 210 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Phased Gas Pipeline Network | South Africa | Proposed | 388 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Phased Gas Pipeline Network | South Africa | Proposed | 686 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Secunda–Durban Lilly Gas PipelineMpumalanga → KwaZulu-Natal | South Africa | Operating | 600 km | 0.61 bcm/y | 1 | 1995 |
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.