Ranking
Operating LNG capacity, by owner country
Where the companies behind today’s LNG capacity are headquartered, from the parent-company country Global Energy Monitor records for each unit. Export and import are shown separately.
Two views, because the shares are not reported
The tracker names each unit’s parent companies and the country each is headquartered in, but gives a percentage stake for only some of them. So this page does not split a unit’s capacity between countries. It shows, for each country, every unit with at least one parent company there (a joint venture is counted under each country involved, so these rows overlap and are never added) andthe units whose parents are all there (each unit falls in one country at most, so these do add up).
Only units operating now, with a capacity reported, are counted. Export and import are never combined, and a company’s headquarters is not the same as who controls it.
Export (liquefaction)
126 operating units with a capacity reported, 496 Mtpa in all. 1 operating unit with no capacity reported are left out.
What the parent countries allow us to say
| Parents of the unit | Units | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| All parents in one countryCounted under that country in the last two columns of the country table. | 29 | 126 Mtpa |
| Parents in more than one countryA joint venture between companies from different countries. | 78 | 355 Mtpa |
| Some parents have no country givenOne country is named but at least one parent has none, so “all in one country” cannot be shown. | 11 | 6.75 Mtpa |
| No parent country reportedThe unit’s owner has no parent on record, or the field is blank. | 8 | 7.88 Mtpa |
| All operating units with a capacity | 126 | 496 Mtpa |
By country (top 20 of 32)
| Parent company country | Units with a parent here | Terminals | Capacity of those units | Units with all parents here | Capacity of those units |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 58 | 25 | 252 Mtpa | 16 | 79.5 Mtpa |
| Japan | 42 | 24 | 192 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| United Kingdom | 36 | 16 | 153 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| France | 28 | 13 | 109 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Qatar | 7 | 2 | 77.1 Mtpa | 1 | 9.6 Mtpa |
| Malaysia | 13 | 9 | 60.5 Mtpa | 2 | 2.7 Mtpa |
| South Korea | 10 | 7 | 48.8 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Australia | 11 | 5 | 45.3 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Italy | 11 | 6 | 40.6 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Russia | 11 | 5 | 36.6 Mtpa | 4 | 3 Mtpa |
| China | 8 | 4 | 36.4 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Saudi Arabia | 6 | 4 | 29.2 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Algeria | 4 | 2 | 25.3 Mtpa | 4 | 25.3 Mtpa |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1 | 22.2 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Thailand | 4 | 3 | 18.4 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Taiwan | 2 | 2 | 17.6 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Egypt | 3 | 2 | 12.2 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 1 | 12 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Oman | 3 | 1 | 11.4 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 2 | 9.4 Mtpa | 0 | — |
The first three figure columns count a joint venture under every country involved, so a country’s figure is the capacity it takes part in, not capacity it holds, and those rows must not be added. The last two columns can be added. Companies behind these numbers are on the owners ranking and, for who partners with whom, on joint-venture partners.
Import (regasification)
238 operating units with a capacity reported, 1190 Mtpa in all. 9 operating units with no capacity reported are left out.
What the parent countries allow us to say
| Parents of the unit | Units | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| All parents in one countryCounted under that country in the last two columns of the country table. | 105 | 615 Mtpa |
| Parents in more than one countryA joint venture between companies from different countries. | 32 | 140 Mtpa |
| Some parents have no country givenOne country is named but at least one parent has none, so “all in one country” cannot be shown. | 38 | 187 Mtpa |
| No parent country reportedThe unit’s owner has no parent on record, or the field is blank. | 63 | 248 Mtpa |
| All operating units with a capacity | 238 | 1190 Mtpa |
By country (top 20 of 40)
| Parent company country | Units with a parent here | Terminals | Capacity of those units | Units with all parents here | Capacity of those units |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 45 | 44 | 257 Mtpa | 30 | 179 Mtpa |
| South Korea | 10 | 9 | 159 Mtpa | 8 | 144 Mtpa |
| United States | 18 | 17 | 120 Mtpa | 10 | 66 Mtpa |
| China | 32 | 20 | 110 Mtpa | 19 | 56.8 Mtpa |
| Spain | 13 | 13 | 72.8 Mtpa | 5 | 37.9 Mtpa |
| France | 8 | 8 | 41.3 Mtpa | 1 | 3.67 Mtpa |
| Belgium | 8 | 5 | 35 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 5 | 32.7 Mtpa | 1 | 5.2 Mtpa |
| Switzerland | 7 | 4 | 30.9 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Italy | 6 | 6 | 26 Mtpa | 2 | 6.17 Mtpa |
| Türkiye | 5 | 5 | 25.5 Mtpa | 3 | 17.1 Mtpa |
| Taiwan | 8 | 3 | 21.5 Mtpa | 8 | 21.5 Mtpa |
| Netherlands | 3 | 3 | 21.3 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Thailand | 3 | 2 | 19 Mtpa | 3 | 19 Mtpa |
| Brazil | 2 | 2 | 16.5 Mtpa | 2 | 16.5 Mtpa |
| Qatar | 1 | 1 | 15.6 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Canada | 2 | 1 | 13.7 Mtpa | 0 | — |
| Germany | 4 | 4 | 13.2 Mtpa | 1 | 5.7 Mtpa |
| Indonesia | 4 | 4 | 11.1 Mtpa | 2 | 5.7 Mtpa |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 2 | 10.9 Mtpa | 1 | 3.8 Mtpa |
The first three figure columns count a joint venture under every country involved, so a country’s figure is the capacity it takes part in, not capacity it holds, and those rows must not be added. The last two columns can be added. Companies behind these numbers are on the owners ranking and, for who partners with whom, on joint-venture partners.
Common questions
Each answer stands on its own.
- Which countries’ companies own the most LNG export capacity?
- Counting a unit under every country that has a parent company in it, United States is first: 58 operating export units at 25 terminals, 252 Mtpa. Those figures include capacity shared with companies from other countries, so they overlap with the other countries’ and are not added together.
- And for import (regasification) capacity?
- Japan is first on the same measure: 45 operating import units at 44 terminals, 257 Mtpa. Import capacity is a different quantity from export capacity, so it is shown separately.
- Why not split each unit’s capacity by ownership share?
- Because the tracker does not give the shares. Parent percentages are reported for only some units, and where a unit has several owners, each with its own parents, the parent list does not say how much of the unit each parent holds. Splitting would mean inventing numbers, so this page shows the whole unit under each country involved, and separately the units where every parent is in one country.
- What does “all parents in one country” mean?
- Every parent company listed for the unit is headquartered in the same country, so the unit belongs to that country alone and these figures can be added up. It does not mean a state owns it: the field is about where a company is headquartered, not who controls it.
- Is this the same as which country owns the capacity?
- No. It is where the parent companies are headquartered according to Global Energy Monitor, which can differ from where a company is listed, taxed or owned. It also says nothing about where the terminal is; see the country capacity ranking for terminals by location.
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