Name: Cotonou FSRU
Address: BJ

At a glance

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	Cancelled	Not reported	Not reported	—	—	Not reported	Gasol PLC; Socar Trading SA

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

Cotonou FSRU at 6.3460° N, 2.4290° E, with 1 tracked gas pipeline passing within 25 km.

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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
West African Gas Pipeline	Operating	678 km	2.04 bcm/y	1.2 km	route proximity

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.
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.
How LNG works
Liquefied natural gas is natural gas chilled to about minus 162 degrees Celsius, at which point it becomes a liquid roughly 600 times smaller than the gas, so it can be shipped where no pipeline runs.