Where is Scarborough FLNG Terminal?

Scarborough FLNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Western Australia, Australia. It is made up of 1 tracked train or phase.

Is Scarborough FLNG Terminal operating?

Scarborough FLNG Terminal is cancelled. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.

How much LNG can Scarborough FLNG Terminal handle?

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

Who owns Scarborough FLNG Terminal?

Scarborough FLNG Terminal is owned by ExxonMobil and BHP Group Ltd. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.

Which maritime chokepoints do cargoes from Scarborough FLNG Terminal pass?

Cargoes from Scarborough FLNG Terminal would normally pass Lombok Strait, Makassar Strait and Strait of Malacca. 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 Scarborough FLNG Terminal?

4 tracked gas pipelines pass within 25 km of Scarborough FLNG Terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance.

Scarborough FLNG Terminal — export terminal

At a glance

Country: Australia
State / province: Western Australia
Region: Oceania
Import / export: Export
Onshore / floating: FLNG
Status (rolled up): Cancelled
Trains / phases tracked: 1
Earliest start year: Not reported
Latest start year: Not reported
Coordinates: 21.6333° S, 115.1167° E
GEM terminal ID: T100000130341
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	Cancelled	7	9.52	—	—	Not reported	Exxon Mobil Corp [75%]; BHP Group Ltd [25%]

Capacity by status

Status	Units	Mtpa	bcm/y
Cancelled	1	7	9.52

Owners and operators

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

Owners

ExxonMobil75%
BHP Group Ltd25%

Parent companies

ExxonMobil75%
BHP Group Ltd25%

Location

Scarborough FLNG Terminal at 21.6333° S, 115.1167° E, with 4 tracked gas pipelines passing within 25 km.

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Coordinates: 21.6333° S, 115.1167° E
Coordinate accuracy (GEM): approximate
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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
Equus Gas Pipeline	Cancelled	210 km	3.51 bcm/y	0 km	route proximity
Wheatstone Ashburton West Pipeline	Operating	123 km	3.38 bcm/y	13.3 km	route proximity
Ashburton Onslow Gas Pipeline	Operating	110 km	0.1 bcm/y	18.5 km	route proximity
Scarborough Gas Pipeline	Proposed	433 km	—	—	name match

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	Lombok Strait Makassar StraitLarger vessels favour Lombok over the shallower Malacca route.	Strait of Malacca

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, browse every chokepoint, or take the machine-readable exposure feed.

In the news

Recent headlines that name Scarborough FLNG Terminal. Matched by name, so it is approximate. Titles and links only; we store no article text.

See all tracked headlines.

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 Scarborough FLNG Terminal?: Scarborough FLNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Western Australia, Australia. It is made up of 1 tracked train or phase.
Is Scarborough FLNG Terminal operating?: Scarborough FLNG Terminal is cancelled. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.
How much LNG can Scarborough FLNG Terminal handle?: Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Scarborough FLNG Terminal, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Who owns Scarborough FLNG Terminal?: Scarborough FLNG Terminal is owned by ExxonMobil and BHP Group Ltd. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.
Which maritime chokepoints do cargoes from Scarborough FLNG Terminal pass?: Cargoes from Scarborough FLNG Terminal would normally pass Lombok Strait, Makassar Strait and Strait of Malacca. 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 Scarborough FLNG Terminal?: 4 tracked gas pipelines pass within 25 km of Scarborough FLNG 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.

FLNG explained
Floating liquefaction, or FLNG, is a complete LNG plant built on a ship-shaped hull and moored over or near a gas field, so gas is liquefied at sea and loaded straight onto carriers without any onshore terminal.
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.
The refrigeration cycles: C3MR, DMR, AP-X and SMR
A liquefaction refrigeration cycle is the closed loop of compression, cooling and expansion that removes heat from feed gas, and the commercial processes differ mainly in how many loops they use and what refrigerant is in each.
Loading jetties and the export terminal layout
An LNG export terminal is laid out as a sequence from feed gas reception through treatment and liquefaction trains to storage and a marine loading jetty, with separation distances between blocks set by hazard analysis.

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Reference

LNG Atlas. (2026). Scarborough FLNG Terminal — export terminal. https://lngatlas.org/terminal/scarborough-flng-terminal-au/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlasterminalscarboroughflngterminalau2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Scarborough FLNG Terminal — export terminal},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/terminal/scarborough-flng-terminal-au/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}