Community Notification: Refrigerants Arrival

With Phase 1 of our liquified natural gas export facility in Kitimat more than 90% complete overall, we continue to conduct critical commissioning and safe start-up activities. These activities include taking receipt of a cargo of refrigerants (liquified petroleum gas), delivered to LNG Canada by the ocean tanker Gaschem Atlantic.

The ship began its voyage on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, and travelled to B.C.’s Pacific coast via the Panama Canal. It will be anchored in early August at the Port of Prince Rupert, prior to its arrival at the LNG Canada marine terminal where it will be safely unloaded.  

Most modern LNG projects receive refrigerants in their commissioning and start-up processes. The refrigerants we receive will be used to cool natural gas delivered to LNG Canada via the Coastal GasLink pipeline. This will help us minimize flaring activities. Once we are in operations and producing LNG, we will produce our own refrigerants.

We expect to begin flaring activities in August. We remain on track to ship first cargoes of made-in-B.C. LNG by the middle of 2025.