Where is Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal?

Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Cyrenaica, Libya. It is made up of 4 tracked trains and phases.

Is Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal operating?

Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal is mothballed, with a first tracked start year of 1970. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.

How much LNG can Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal handle?

Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.

Who owns Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal?

Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal is owned by Sirte Oil Co. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.

What pipelines connect to Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal?

5 tracked gas pipelines pass within 25 km of Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance.

Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal — export terminal

At a glance

Country: Libya
State / province: Cyrenaica
Region: Not reported
Import / export: Export
Onshore / floating: Not reported
Status (rolled up): Mothballed
Trains / phases tracked: 4
Earliest start year: 1970
Latest start year: 1970
Coordinates: 30.4067° N, 19.5935° E
GEM terminal ID: T100000130255
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 T1	Mothballed	0.8	1.09	1970	—	Not reported	Sirte Oil Co [100%]
Unit T2	Mothballed	0.8	1.09	1970	—	Not reported	Sirte Oil Co [100%]
Unit T3	Mothballed	0.8	1.09	1970	—	Not reported	Sirte Oil Co [100%]
Unit T4	Mothballed	0.8	1.09	1970	—	Not reported	Sirte Oil Co [100%]

Capacity by status

Status	Units	Mtpa	bcm/y
Mothballed	4	3.2	4.35

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Sirte Oil Co100%

Location

Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal at 30.4067° N, 19.5935° E, with 5 tracked gas pipelines passing within 25 km.

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Coordinates: 30.4067° N, 19.5935° 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
Brega-Benghazi Gas Pipeline	Operating	245 km	10.76 bcm/y	2.5 km	route proximity
Brega-Khoms Gas Pipeline	Operating	645 km	11.61 bcm/y	2.5 km	route proximity
Nasser-Brega Gas Pipeline	Operating	172 km	14.87 bcm/y	2.6 km	route proximity
Sahel-km-81.5 Gas Pipeline	Operating	79 km	19.54 bcm/y	2.6 km	route proximity
Raguba-Nasser-Marsa el Brega Gas Pipeline	Operating	87 km	—	—	name match

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 Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal?: Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Cyrenaica, Libya. It is made up of 4 tracked trains and phases.
Is Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal operating?: Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal is mothballed, with a first tracked start year of 1970. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.
How much LNG can Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal handle?: Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Who owns Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal?: Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal is owned by Sirte Oil Co. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.
What pipelines connect to Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal?: 5 tracked gas pipelines pass within 25 km of Marsa El Brega 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.

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.
Mtpa, bcm and cubic metres
LNG capacity is quoted in three incompatible units, and the two conversions that matter are 1 million tonnes a year equals about 1.36 billion cubic metres of gas a year, and 1 cubic metre of liquid equals about 600 cubic metres of gas.
Reading a capacity figure without being misled
An LNG capacity figure is only meaningful alongside three qualifiers — which unit it is in, which project status it describes, and whether it is a design nameplate or actual output — and most disagreements between sources come from one of those being dropped.
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.