Ranking
Biggest LNG terminal owners by operating capacity
Companies ranked by operating LNG terminal capacity attributed to their ownership stake, apportioned by GEM's reported percentage at the level of the individual train or phase rather than the terminal as a whole.
How this is calculated, and why the numbers are a floor
Each operating terminal unit's own capacity — not the terminal's combined total — is apportioned across its recorded owners by their reported percentage share, then summed by company. Attributing at the terminal level instead would double- or triple-count a company that owns several units at one site, since a terminal's total is already the sum of its units.
A stake where GEM records an owner but no percentage contributes nothing to the sum here, rather than being guessed at. Companies with at least one such unweighted stake are marked † below: their true attributable capacity is higher than the figure shown, by an amount this ranking cannot quantify.
This ranking uses GEM's Owner field specifically. Owner and parentare recorded separately and sometimes name different entities for the same asset — a subsidiary or joint-venture vehicle as owner, a different company as the parent that actually controls it. That divergence is real in the source data and appears directly in the table below rather than being smoothed over.
Top 50 owners
Showing the top 50. † marks a company holding at least one further, unquantified ownership stake beyond the figure shown. Browse every company in the directory.
Common questions
Each answer stands on its own.
- Who owns the most operating LNG terminal capacity?
- KOGAS Canada Ltd, with 136 Mtpa attributed across 7 terminals in the current release. This is a floor: it counts only stakes where Global Energy Monitor reports both an owner and a percentage.
- Why is this ranking described as a floor rather than an exact total?
- Because a company can hold an ownership role on a unit without GEM reporting a percentage for it, and an unreported percentage contributes nothing to this ranking rather than being guessed at. A company's true attributable capacity can only be higher than the figure shown, never lower.
- Why might the top owner not match the company usually described as controlling that terminal?
- Because GEM's Owner field and Parent field are recorded separately and can name different entities for the same asset — an owner may be a subsidiary or joint-venture vehicle while the parent is the company that actually controls it. This ranking uses the Owner field specifically; see ownership, parents and why they differ for a full explanation, and the concentration at some terminals in this table is a direct, real example of it.
- Does this ranking include operators that hold no ownership stake?
- No. An operator can run a facility without owning any share of it, which is a different relationship this ranking does not measure — see how ownership and operatorship differ for what each field actually means.