Natural Gas Daily Latin America & Caribbean LNG

Pacific best for Colombia’s next LNG terminal – report

By Chris Noon 1 December 2016
Höegh Grace has been chartered as an FSRU at Colombia’s first LNG terminal. (Höegh)

Colombian authorities have made a strong case for locating the country’s second LNG terminal in or around the Pacific port of Buenaventura instead of increasing capacity at the existing facility in Cartagena, which is on the Atlantic coast.  

Gas deficits and energy rationing would cost $2.4 billion between 2016 and 2040 if Colombia built a second terminal at Cartagena, according to the country’s national mining and energy planning unit, the UPME.

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