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LNG rankings
32 generated rankings, each recomputed directly from the tracker rather than compiled by hand: terminals, pipelines, owners and countries, the carrier fleet, its yards, owners, age, size and order book, capacity by planned and actual start year, final investment decisions, project costs, what was cancelled or shelved, how concentrated capacity is, who operates it, and pipeline ownership, length and capacity.
Every ranking here is a bounded, generated top list built from the same rules the rest of the site enforces — capacity at different statuses is never combined, and an unreported field contributes nothing rather than being estimated. Each page states its own method before its table, because a ranking is only as trustworthy as how it was computed.
The rankings
- Largest LNG terminals
Sabine Pass LNG Terminal leads export, 59.9 Mtpa
- Longest gas pipelines
NaTran Gas Pipeline Network, 29,574 km
- Biggest owners by operating capacity
KOGAS Canada Ltd leads, 136 Mtpa
- Countries by LNG capacity
United States leads export capacity
- Largest operating LNG carriers
Mekaines, 266,500 m³
- Shipyards by operating vessels built
Hanwha Ocean leads, 211 vessels
- Biggest fleet owners
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines leads, 95 operating vessels
- Carrier order book by year
364 vessels under construction
- Age of the carrier fleet
764 operating carriers by delivery year
- Capacity under construction by year
89 terminal units, by planned start year
- Operating capacity by start year
Export peak 2015–2019, 132 Mtpa still operating
- Project costs
Operating export units: about $1,316 per tonne a year, as estimated
- Cancelled and shelved
725 Mtpa of export capacity cancelled, by year
- Capacity by owner country
Companies from United States take part in the most export capacity, 252 Mtpa
- Joint-venture partners
ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy share 5 terminals
- How long units take to build
Import units: median 3 years from construction start (88 units)
- EU priority gas pipelines
56 pipeline entries on the EU's PCI lists
- Where capacity started, by decade
7 maps, one per decade, export and import apart
- Final investment decisions
94 units marked FID, 113 more planning one
- How big LNG carriers have become
Median ship 135,000 m³ to 174,000 m³ across delivery periods
- Where LNG ships are built
South Korea built 620 operating vessels, on a map of 32 yards
- How concentrated capacity is
The five largest export terminals hold 30% of operating export capacity
- Who operates the most capacity
QatarEnergy operates 77.1 Mtpa of export capacity
- Floating terminal vessel owners
Excelerate Energy leads, 9 operating floating units
- Largest gas pipelines by capacity
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline, 172 bcm/y
- How the gas pipeline network grew
474 operating pipelines started 2020–2024, the most of any period
- Gas pipelines between countries
Canada and United States: 20 pipelines
- How big LNG terminal units are
Median export unit 1.2 Mtpa for 2020–2024
- LNG units retired, mothballed or idle
53 units across 33 terminals
- Where LNG terminals cluster
54 groups of 3 or more terminals, each within 25 km of another
- Biggest pipeline owners by length
Gazprom PJSC leads, 145,071 km
- Countries by pipeline length
United States leads, 427,382 km