Singapore's Woodfibre aims to be first to export LNG from Canada

[SINGAPORE] Singapore-headquartered Woodfibre LNG expects to "greenlight" its US$2 billion investment in a 2.1 million tonne-per-annum LNG liquefaction plant in Canada's West Coast by the second quarter of next year, with the project expected to start exporting liquefied natural gas to Asia in Q1 2017.

This will make it the first Canadian LNG export terminal, capitalising on plentiful shale gas there, to get off the ground, visiting British Columbia Premier Christy Clark said yesterday, adding that Woodfibre had "an aggressive timeline" to achieve this.

Woodfibre LNG is clearly pulling out all the stops. Its lead director Imelda Tanoto told BT it was simultaneously in negotiations with possible EPC contractors, including from Asia and Europe, to build the project, even as it is discussing with potential LNG buyers including those in Japan, China, South Korea and Singapore, the last including with Temasek-owned Pavilion Energy.