Petronas may consider Shell site for Canadian LNG project

Petronas President & Group Chief Executive Officer Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin during the press conference in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. - MUHAMAD SHAHRIL ROSLI /The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) may be looking at building a US$27bil liquefied natural gas export terminal in northwestern Canada on the site of an abandoned Royal Dutch Shell Plc energy project, according to the company’s chief executive officer.

While Petronas, as the stateowned company is known, has yet to make a financial decision to move forward with its Pacific Northwest LNG project in British Columbia, Shell’s Ridley Island site “could be one of the options” for a location for the complex, CEO Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin said in an interview here last Friday.