Where is Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal?

Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Texas, United States. It is made up of 2 tracked trains and phases.

Is Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal operating?

Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal is proposed. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.

How much LNG can Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal handle?

Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.

Who owns Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal?

Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal is owned by Bluewater Texas Terminal LLC. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.

Which maritime chokepoints do cargoes from Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal pass?

Cargoes from Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal would normally pass Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Bab el-Mandeb, Strait of Malacca and 1 other. This is an editorial model of typical laden voyages by destination market, not vessel tracking, and any individual cargo may go another way.

What pipelines connect to Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal?

1 tracked gas pipeline passes within 25 km of Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance.

Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal

At a glance

Country: United States
State / province: Texas
Region: Not reported
Import / export: Export
Onshore / floating: Not reported
Status (rolled up): Proposed
Trains / phases tracked: 2
Earliest start year: Not reported
Latest start year: Not reported
Coordinates: 27.9049° N, 96.6276° W
GEM terminal ID: T100000130739
GEM wiki page: gem.wiki

Trains and phases

Each row is one unit as tracked by GEM. Ordered by start year, then proposal year.

Unit	Status	Capacity (Mtpa)	Capacity (bcm/y)	Start	Proposed	FID	Owner (as reported)
Unit Terminal 1	Proposed	Not reported	Not reported	—	—	Not reported	Bluewater Texas Terminal LLC [100%]
Unit Terminal 2	Proposed	Not reported	Not reported	—	—	Not reported	Bluewater Texas Terminal LLC [100%]

Owners and operators

Stakes as reported by GEM per unit, merged across units. Percentages are omitted where GEM does not give them.

Owners

Bluewater Texas Terminal LLC100%

Location

Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal at 27.9049° N, 96.6276° W, with 1 tracked gas pipeline passing within 25 km.

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Coordinates: 27.9049° N, 96.6276° W
Coordinate accuracy (GEM): exact
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Nearest tracked terminals

Connected gas pipelines

Tracked pipelines whose route passes within 25 km of this terminal, or whose name matches it. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection.

Pipeline	Status	Length	Capacity	Distance	Matched by
Northern Natural Gas Pipeline	Operating	23,014 km	64.39 bcm/y	5.8 km	route proximity

Exposed to chokepoints

Where cargoes from this terminal would normally pass a maritime chokepoint, by destination market.

Destination	Chokepoints on the usual route	Alternative route
East Asia	Panama CanalPanama slot availability and draught decide between these; the Cape is the fallback.	Suez CanalStrait of Malacca
South Asia	Suez CanalBab el-Mandeb	Cape of Good Hope

Routing is an editorial model of typical laden voyages, held in a hand-maintained lane table. It is not vessel tracking, and it does not account for diversions, canal draught limits, ice class or seasonal closures. See methodology, or take the machine-readable exposure feed. Links to the Chokepoints site are inactive until its domain is set in the environment.

Common questions

Generated from the same tracker fields as the tables above, so the two cannot disagree. Each answer stands on its own.

Where is Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal?: Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Texas, United States. It is made up of 2 tracked trains and phases.
Is Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal operating?: Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal is proposed. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.
How much LNG can Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal handle?: Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Who owns Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal?: Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal is owned by Bluewater Texas Terminal LLC. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.
Which maritime chokepoints do cargoes from Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal pass?: Cargoes from Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal would normally pass Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Bab el-Mandeb, Strait of Malacca and 1 other. This is an editorial model of typical laden voyages by destination market, not vessel tracking, and any individual cargo may go another way.
What pipelines connect to Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal?: 1 tracked gas pipeline passes within 25 km of Bluewater Texas (BWTX) Terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance.

Background on the technology and the terms used on this page.

Liquefaction trains explained
A liquefaction train is one complete, self-contained refrigeration line that chills treated natural gas until it condenses, and a large modern train produces roughly 5 to 8 million tonnes of LNG a year.
LNG and maritime chokepoints
A maritime chokepoint is a narrow strait or canal that a large share of seaborne trade must pass through, and LNG exposure to them depends entirely on which exporting region supplies which importing market.
What 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.
How LNG works
Liquefied natural gas is natural gas chilled to about minus 162 degrees Celsius, at which point it becomes a liquid roughly 600 times smaller than the gas, so it can be shipped where no pipeline runs.