OilGasArticles Editor

OilGasArticles features up-to-date, searchable oil and natural gas industry articles, online oil and gas publication service, and a full-text article database covering all areas of the oil and gas industry.

Published on 03/16/2006

France has tried to position itself as a European hub for liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports. France is one of Europe's largest consumers of LNG, and the country receives some 25% of its natural gas imports in the form of LNG.

France is the largest importer of LNG in the EU.

Most French LNG imports come from Algeria, with smaller quantities from Nigeria. France currently has two LNG receiving terminals: the 440-Mmcf/d Fos-sur-Mer, located at the Fos Cavaou gas terminal on France's Mediterranean coast, and a 970-Mmcf/d terminal at Montoir-de-Bretagne, on the Atlantic coast.

GdF is constructing a new, offshore LNG receiving terminal at Fos Cavaou, and ExxonMobil has also proposed building an LNG import terminal near Fos Cavaou by 2009.

Source: Energy Information Administration