Nexen, Inpex cancel British Columbia-based Aurora LNG export project

Aurora LNG and its partners, Nexen Energy—a wholly owned subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp. Ltd.—and INPEX Gas British Columbia, have ended the project’s feasibility study and will cease all activity on the project. Aurora LNG would have liquefied Canadian natural gas for export to Asia from Digby Island on the northwest coast of British Columbia. The partners had been studying the project for 4 years.

The partners cited an adverse macroeconomic environment in announcing Aurora LNG’s cancellation but said that upstream operations in the Horn River region of northeast British Columbia would continue.

Malaysia’s Petronas and its partners earlier this year opted not to proceed with the Pacific NorthWest LNG project at Port Edward, BC (OGJ Online, July 25, 2017).