Lng Terminals Database Download Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

Think in two layers. A registry tells you what exists and who owns it - that is the Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, asset level, refreshed quarterly. An operations layer tells you what a working terminal is doing today - that is the ENTSOG Transparency Platform, which reports physical flows, nominations and technical, available and booked capacity per EU LNG terminal alongside every interconnection point and storage facility, across roughly 30 transmission system operators.

Two national complements round out the picture. EIA's map library covers United States infrastructure geography but stops at cartography and boundary files for storage facilities, market centers and pipeline networks - it has no terminal registry at all. And the National Gas Transmission Data Portal (UK) counts storage and LNG sites among the locations it monitors on Great Britain's NTS: an instantaneous feed refreshed every two minutes across roughly 12,300 documented data items in 20 dictionary categories. Registry for the census, ENTSOG for EU utilisation, EIA for context layers, NGT for one island system's live readings.

The terminal records resolve to seven workhorse attributes. Status sorts each project into Proposed, Construction, Shelved, Cancelled, Operating, Idle, Mothballed or Retired. Owner attaches the parent company behind the terminal capacity. Country/Area and a two-level Region code place it geographically - GEM groups entries as macro-region and subregion, Africa / Northern Africa style. Start year dates actual or expected startup, reaching back to 1980 in the summary tables. Capacity is expressed in million tonnes per annum, split into import and export figures - the regional summary sample shows one row carrying 8.0 import beside 5.4 export. And a Location accuracy flag marks each mapped point as approximate or exact.

Scope rules matter when you count: the tracker aims at all LNG import and export terminals regardless of status, and explicitly excludes storage-only and bunkering terminals. An optional ownership-chain supplement unwinds parent-subsidiary structures, and the summary sheets pre-aggregate terminals by region and by start year, with pipeline views adding country/area and owner cuts.

The summary sheets show how those fields aggregate. A regional row reads Region Africa, Subregion Northern Africa, with 16.9 mtpa Proposed beside 13.5 Operating and 5.7 Retired; a start-year row pairs Start year 1980 with 8.0 import capacity and 5.4 export; an owner row attaches 274 operating kilometres of pipeline to one asset manager's name. Those three cuts - region, start year, owner - are exactly what a screening model needs before any geometry enters the analysis.