The Taichung LNG Terminal () is a
liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the vol ...
(LNG) terminal at
Port of Taichung
The Port of Taichung (), also Taichung Port, is a port located in Wuqi District, Taichung, Taiwan. It is the second-largest port in Taiwan after Kaohsiung Port and operated by Taiwan International Ports Corporation, Taiwan's state-owned harbor m ...
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Wuqi District
Wuqi District () is a coastal suburban district in southern Taichung, Taiwan. The Port of Taichung is located in Wuqi District.
History
After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Wuqi was organized as an urban ...
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Taichung
Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Ta ...
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
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History
The terminal was inaugurated on 16 July 2009 by
CPC Corporation as the second LNG terminal in Taiwan.
On 24 August 2020, Port of Taichung operator
Taiwan International Ports Corporation
The Taiwan International Ports Corporation (TIPC; ) is a state-owned shipping company in Taiwan that operates ports in Taiwan.
History
The company was founded on Thursday 1 March 2012.
Organizational structure
* Public Affairs Department
* Lega ...
signed an agreement with
CPC Corporation to lease the area next to west wharf number 11 and 12 of the port for the expansion of Taichung LNG Terminal.
Technical specifications
The terminal supplies vaporized LNG to
Tatan Power Plant in
Guanyin District
Guanyin District () is a rural, coastal district in western Taoyuan City, Taiwan. Guanyin is the name of a Buddhist goddess.
History
Guanyin was originally named as Shiguanyin during the Qing Dynasty rule. It was renamed to Guanyin in 1920 dur ...
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Taoyuan City
Taoyuan () is a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in northwestern Taiwan, neighboring New Taipei City to the north-east, Yilan County to the south-east, and Hsinchu County to the south-west. Taoyuan Distr ...
via subsea
gas pipeline
Pipeline transport is the long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas through a system of pipes—a pipeline—typically to a market area for consumption. The latest data from 2014 gives a total of slightly less than of pipeline in 120 countr ...
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See also
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List of LNG terminals
Liquefied natural gas ( LNG) is the liquefied form of natural gas, which has a much smaller volume than natural gas in its gaseous form. This liquefied condition is used to facilitate the carriage of natural gas over long distances, often by se ...
References
2009 establishments in Taiwan
Buildings and structures in Taichung
Energy infrastructure completed in 2009
Liquefied natural gas terminals in Taiwan
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