Where is Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal?

Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal is an LNG import terminal in Japan. It is made up of 1 tracked train or phase.

Is Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal operating?

Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal is proposed. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.

How much LNG can Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal handle?

Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.

Who owns Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal?

Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal is owned by Hokkaido Gas Co Ltd. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.

Which maritime chokepoints do cargoes from Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal pass?

Cargoes from Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal would normally pass Strait of Malacca, Strait of Hormuz, Panama Canal, Lombok Strait 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 Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal?

2 tracked gas pipelines pass within 25 km of Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance.

Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal — import terminal, Japan

At a glance

Country: Japan
State / province: Not reported
Region: Not reported
Import / export: Import
Onshore / floating: Not reported
Status (rolled up): Proposed
Trains / phases tracked: 1
Earliest start year: Not reported
Latest start year: Not reported
Coordinates: 42.6066° N, 141.7903° E
GEM terminal ID: T100001083509
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)
Not reported	Proposed	Not reported	Not reported	—	—	Not reported	Hokkaido Gas Co Ltd

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Hokkaido Gas Co Ltd

Location

Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal at 42.6066° N, 141.7903° E, with 2 tracked gas pipelines passing within 25 km.

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Coordinates: 42.6066° N, 141.7903° E
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
Yufutsu-Sapporo Gas Pipeline	Operating	72 km	—	24.6 km	route proximity
Sakhalin-Hokkaido Gas Pipeline	Cancelled	1,500 km	25 bcm/y	—	name match

Supplied via

Chokepoints that cargoes arriving at this terminal typically cross, based on where its region is supplied from.

Strait of Malacca
Strait of Hormuz
Panama Canal
Lombok Strait
Taiwan Strait

Cargoes reach north-east Asia from the Middle East, Australia, the United States and Russia, so exposure is spread.

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 Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal?: Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal is an LNG import terminal in Japan. It is made up of 1 tracked train or phase.
Is Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal operating?: Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal is proposed. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.
How much LNG can Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal handle?: Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Who owns Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal?: Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal is owned by Hokkaido Gas Co Ltd. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.
Which maritime chokepoints do cargoes from Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal pass?: Cargoes from Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal would normally pass Strait of Malacca, Strait of Hormuz, Panama Canal, Lombok Strait 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 Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG Terminal?: 2 tracked gas pipelines pass within 25 km of Hokkaido Gas Tomakomai LNG 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.

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.
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.