Where is Yemen LNG Terminal?

Yemen LNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Shabwah, Yemen. It is made up of 2 tracked trains and phases.

Is Yemen LNG Terminal operating?

Yemen LNG Terminal is mothballed, with a first tracked start year of 2009. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.

How much LNG can Yemen LNG Terminal handle?

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

Who owns Yemen LNG Terminal?

Yemen LNG Terminal is owned by Yemen LNG Company Ltd, and operated by Yemen LNG Company Ltd. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.

What pipelines connect to Yemen LNG Terminal?

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

Yemen LNG Terminal — export terminal, Shabwah, Yemen

At a glance

Country: Yemen
State / province: Shabwah
Region: Asia
Import / export: Export
Onshore / floating: Not reported
Status (rolled up): Mothballed
Trains / phases tracked: 2
Earliest start year: 2009
Latest start year: 2010
Coordinates: 13.9812° N, 48.1812° E
GEM terminal ID: T100000130605
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)
T1	Mothballed	3.35	4.56	2009	2005	Not reported	Yemen LNG Company Ltd [100%]
T2	Mothballed	3.35	4.56	2010	2005	Not reported	Yemen LNG Company Ltd [100%]

Capacity by status

Status	Units	Mtpa	bcm/y
Mothballed	2	6.7	9.11

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Yemen LNG Company Ltd100%

Parent companies

Operators

Yemen LNG Company Ltd

Location

Yemen LNG Terminal at 13.9812° N, 48.1812° E, with 1 tracked gas pipeline passing within 25 km.

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Coordinates: 13.9812° N, 48.1812° 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
Yemen LNG Gas Pipeline	Idle	320 km	11.65 bcm/y	0.2 km	route proximity

Vessels owned by the same companies

Ships in the tracker held by a company that also owns, operates or parents this terminal. A shared owner is not the same as a dedicated trade.

Vessel	Via	Status	Capacity	Delivered
BW Boston	TotalEnergies	Operating	138,000 m³	2003

In the news

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

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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 Yemen LNG Terminal?: Yemen LNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Shabwah, Yemen. It is made up of 2 tracked trains and phases.
Is Yemen LNG Terminal operating?: Yemen LNG Terminal is mothballed, with a first tracked start year of 2009. Nothing here should be read as a forecast that it will be built.
How much LNG can Yemen LNG Terminal handle?: Global Energy Monitor reports no capacity for Yemen LNG Terminal, so none is shown. That is an absent figure, not a zero.
Who owns Yemen LNG Terminal?: Yemen LNG Terminal is owned by Yemen LNG Company Ltd, and operated by Yemen LNG Company Ltd. Shares are as recorded in the current tracker release.
What pipelines connect to Yemen LNG Terminal?: 1 tracked gas pipeline passes within 25 km of Yemen 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.
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.
Tolling, offtake and how projects are financed
LNG project financing depends on offtake agreements committing buyers to future volumes before construction, structured either as traditional sale contracts where the seller owns and prices the gas, or as tolling agreements where the customer owns the gas and pays only a processing fee.

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Reference

LNG Atlas. (2026). Yemen LNG Terminal — export terminal, Shabwah, Yemen. https://lngatlas.org/terminal/yemen-lng-terminal-ye/ Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2025, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

BibTeX entry

@misc{lngatlasterminalyemenlngterminalye2026,
  author = {{LNG Atlas}},
  title = {Yemen LNG Terminal — export terminal, Shabwah, Yemen},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://lngatlas.org/terminal/yemen-lng-terminal-ye/},
  note = {Data: Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2025, CC BY 4.0},
}