Where is Cotonou FSRU?

Cotonou FSRU is an LNG import terminal in Benin. It is made up of 1 tracked train or phase.

Is Cotonou FSRU operating?

Cotonou FSRU is cancelled. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.

Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Cotonou FSRU, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.

Cotonou FSRU is owned by Gasol PLC and Socar Trading SA. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.

1 tracked gas pipeline passes within 25 km of Cotonou FSRU. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance.

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)
Not reported	Cancelled	Not reported	Not reported	—	—	Not reported	Gasol PLC; Socar Trading SA

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

Cotonou FSRU at 6.3460° N, 2.4290° E, with 1 tracked gas pipeline passing within 25 km.

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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
West African Gas Pipeline	Operating	678 km	2.04 bcm/y	1.2 km	route proximity

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

Where is Cotonou FSRU?: Cotonou FSRU is an LNG import terminal in Benin. It is made up of 1 tracked train or phase.
Is Cotonou FSRU operating?: Cotonou FSRU is cancelled. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.
How much LNG can Cotonou FSRU handle?: Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Cotonou FSRU, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Who owns Cotonou FSRU?: Cotonou FSRU is owned by Gasol PLC and Socar Trading SA. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.
What pipelines connect to Cotonou FSRU?: 1 tracked gas pipeline passes within 25 km of Cotonou FSRU. 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.

FSRU versus onshore regasification
An FSRU is a ship that stores LNG and turns it back into gas while moored, doing the job of an onshore import terminal without the onshore construction.
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.
The LNG value chain end to end
The LNG value chain is the sequence of production, treatment, liquefaction, shipping, regasification and distribution that moves natural gas between markets no pipeline connects, at an end-to-end energy cost of roughly 10 to 20 per cent of the gas itself.