Track 7 of 7
Reading the data
What a tracker can and cannot tell you: what each project status means, why capacity figures disagree between sources, and how to cite this site responsibly.
Every figure on this site comes from someone else’s compilation of public sources, and compilations have grain. A status is a judgement about a project made on a particular day; a capacity is whatever the most recent credible source said; an ownership share is a snapshot of an arrangement that may already have changed.
None of that makes the data unreliable. It makes it data rather than truth, and the difference matters when you build an analysis on top of it. The most common mistakes are adding proposed capacity to operating capacity, treating a reclassification as an event in the world, and comparing two sources that measure different things with the same word.
This track explains the conventions used here, so that a number taken from this site can be defended by whoever takes it.
5 modules
1 written so far; the rest are listed in the order they will be published.
- 01What terminal status actually means
A project status describes how far an LNG terminal or train has progressed, and the gap between proposed and operating is the single most misread number in the industry.
- 02Why capacity figures disagree between sourcesplanned
- 03Ownership, parents and why they differplanned
- 04What a tracker can and cannot tell youplanned
- 05How to cite this site, and what to check firstplanned
Vocabulary for this track
6 terms, defined in full in the glossary.