Currently, the UK has a single LNG import terminal, the NGTs Grain LNG on the Isle of Grain. The facility has a sendout capacity of 420 Bcf/d, which NGT plans to expand to 1.3 Bcf/d by the end of 2007. Algerias Sonatrach and BP are the principle importers using the terminal.
ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum have received regulatory approval for the South Hook LNG receiving terminal in Milton Haven, Wales. The terminal will receive its LNG from the Qatargas II liquefaction project in Ras Laffin, Qatar, which is also a joint project between the two companies. The South Hook LNG project should come online by 2007, with an initial capacity of 1.0 Bcf/d and a maximum capacity of 2.1 Bcf/d by 2009. Finally, BG has collaborated with Netherlands-based Petroplus and Malaysia-based Petronas to also build an LNG receiving terminal in Milton Haven, on the site of an existing Natural Gas storage facility owned by Petroplus. Dragon received regulatory approval from Ofgem in early 2005, and the project should start receiving cargos by the end of 2008 at an initial sendout capacity of 580 Mmcf/d.