At a glance

Country: Colombia
State / province: Bolivar
Region: Not reported
Import / export: Import
Onshore / floating: FSRU
Status (rolled up): Operating
Trains / phases tracked: 3
Earliest start year: 2016
Latest start year: 2026
Coordinates: 10.2811° N, 75.5581° W
GEM terminal ID: T100000130562
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	Operating	3.04	4.13	2016	—	Not reported	Sociedad Portuaria El Cayao (SPEC) [100%]
Unit Phase 1 Expansion	Operating	0.57	0.78	2026	—	Not reported	Sociedad Portuaria El Cayao (SPEC) [100%]
Unit Phase 2 Expansion	Proposed	0.44	0.6	—	—	Not reported	Sociedad Portuaria El Cayao (SPEC) [100%]

Capacity by status

Status	Units	Mtpa	bcm/y
Operating	2	3.61	4.91
Proposed	1	0.44	0.6

Owners and operators

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

Owners

Sociedad Portuaria El Cayao (SPEC)100%

Operators

Location

Cartagena FSRU (Colombia) at 10.2811° N, 75.5581° W, with 2 tracked gas pipelines passing within 25 km.

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Coordinates: 10.2811° N, 75.5581° W
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
Promigas Pipeline Network	Operating	2,537 km	9.73 bcm/y	1.3 km	route proximity
Promigas Pipeline Network	Operating	135 km	1.02 bcm/y	10.4 km	route proximity

Supplied via

Chokepoints that cargoes arriving at this terminal typically cross, based on where its region is supplied from.

Panama Canal

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, or take the machine-readable exposure feed. Links to the Chokepoints site are inactive until its domain is set in the environment.

Background on the technology and the terms used on this page.

FSRU versus onshore regasification
An FSRU is a ship that stores LNG and turns it back into gas while moored, doing the job of an onshore import terminal without the onshore construction.
LNG and maritime chokepoints
A maritime chokepoint is a narrow strait or canal that a large share of seaborne trade must pass through, and LNG exposure to them depends entirely on which exporting region supplies which importing market.
Mtpa, bcm and cubic metres
LNG capacity is quoted in three incompatible units, and the two conversions that matter are 1 million tonnes a year equals about 1.36 billion cubic metres of gas a year, and 1 cubic metre of liquid equals about 600 cubic metres of gas.
What terminal status actually means
A project status describes how far an LNG terminal or train has progressed, and the gap between proposed and operating is the single most misread number in the industry.

Cartagena FSRU (Colombia)