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Enbridge and LNG

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is natural gas in its liquid form. The process of creating LNG involves cooling natural gas to a liquid state, allowing for it to be transported globally by sea using specialized LNG vessels. When LNG is required, it is then reheated to its gas state and used for heating and for making thousands of consumer products.

Why use LNG?

At Enbridge, we believe natural gas is key to society’s transition to a cleaner energy future—and that global LNG exports, using North America’s abundance of high-quality, low-cost natural gas, can help countries around the world address both energy security and deep decarbonization goals.

Natural gas is essential to a clean, reliable and affordable global energy future by:

  • displacing coal in power generation.
  • backstopping the intermittency of renewables.
  • contributing to a lower-carbon footprint.

So, what is Enbridge doing with LNG?

In the U.S., our cross-continent natural gas transmission pipeline network of nearly 20,000 miles is unparalleled in scale, scope and connectivity—and serves 15% of LNG export capacity on the Gulf Coast through our assets like the Texas Eastern Transmission, Valley Crossing and Brazoria Interconnector Gas (BIG) pipelines and our recent acquisition of the Tres Palacios Gas Storage facility.

Our operations supply natural gas to four operating LNG facilities in the Gulf Coast, and are poised to serve at least three more based on executed precedent agreements. With predictions that Gulf Coast LNG exports will double in the next decade, we expect by 2030 to be responsible for 30% of those exports through projects such as the Gator Express Meter Project, the Venice Extension Project and the Rio Bravo Project.

North of the 49th parallel, we’re well-positioned to fuel Canada’s opportunity to serve growing economic markets in Asia. In mid-2022, we announced our involvement in the development and operation of the Woodfibre LNG Project, alongside Pacific Energy Corporation Limited.

The Woodfibre LNG facility will have the capacity to produce 2.1 million tonnes of LNG annually and include floating storage capacity of 250,000 m3.

Woodfibre LNG will use electric motor drives powered by renewable hydroelectric power. Once operational, Woodfibre LNG will be one of the lowest-emission LNG export facilities in the world.