NorthAmOil: Tourmaline joins Ksi Lisims LNG project

Canada’s Tourmaline Oil announced last week that it had joined Rockies LNG Partners, the group developing the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project on the British Columbian coast.
The brief announcement came in Tourmaline’s second-quarter results. The company did not elaborate, beyond saying it would continue to expand the size and breadth of its LNG business in both the short and long term.
Rockies LNG Partners also includes Advantage Energy, Birchcliff Energy, Bonavista Energy, Crescent Point Energy, NuVista Energy, Ovintiv, Paramount Resources and Peyto Exploration & Development. Ovintiv and Crescent Point both joined the group earlier this year.
Together, the companies comprising Rockies LNG Partners represent a combined 5.6bn cubic feet (159mn cubic metres) of gas production, or roughly one-third of Canada’s total output. They are developing the Ksi Lisims project together with the Nisga’a Nation indigenous group and Texas-based Western LNG. The developers believe that the project will be one of the most significant indigenous-supported industrial developments in Canada if it proceeds.
Ksi Lisims would be a floating liquefaction facility with a planned capacity of 12mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG. Developing the project would open up a new market for the producers that make up Rockies LNG Partners. It would also be a net-zero emissions facility.