17 Times Countries Said They Want Canadian-Made Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Since 2022

🇪🇺 Europe

(April 2026) - Read Article

In an exclusive report, Reuters revealed that European energy buyers – including Germany's state-owned utilities – are in active commercial talks to purchase LNG from Canada's Pacific coast and ship it through the Panama Canal to meet European demand ^[15].

Sources confirmed the talks involve Canada's proposed Ksi Lisims LNG export terminal, whose backers are working to finalize purchase contracts ahead of a final investment decision sometime later this year. The urgency has been amplified by disruptions caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, sending buyers scrambling for supply from stable, democratic jurisdictions.

"Since the war in Iran started, there has been especially strong interest in offtake from LNG buyers all around the world, including from Europe," said a source familiar with the Ksi Lisims project via reporting by Reuters.

🇮🇳 India

(February 2026) - Read Article

Ahead of Prime Minister Carney's five-day visit to India, the country's High Commissioner to Canada made it clear that India is ready to become one of Canada's largest energy customers – in oil, LNG, and uranium ^[16].

Already the world's fourth-largest LNG importer, India is aggressively working to triple its share of natural gas in its energy mix by 2030, and Canadian supply is seen as a key part of the solution. High Commissioner Dinesh Patnaik said his country has an energy appetite that is virtually unlimited, adding: "We are willing to buy whatever Canada is offering on crude, on LPG, on LNG."

Patnaik also noted Canada has long punched below its weight as an energy exporter, selling nearly all of its oil and gas to a single customer – the United States – while countries like India are left looking elsewhere.

"You're an energy superpower but you only supply one country," said Patnaik. "We would be your biggest client – I think that is possible in the near future."

🇨🇳 China

(January 2026) - Read Article

During PM Carney's first visit to Beijing since taking office, Canada and China signed a formal memorandum of understanding committing both countries to expanded cooperation on oil, LNG, and renewables ^[17].

"What we heard loud and clear is that China is looking for reliable trading partners," Hodgson said during the trip.

The signed MOU explicitly names Canada as "an important potential partner in… reliable global oil, LNG and LPG supply" and commits both countries to a formal energy meeting every 12–18 months for five years.

Officials say the conversation has meaningfully shifted since LNG Canada began shipping to Asia in 2025, with China increasingly viewing Canadian LNG as a long-term supply priority.

🇿🇦 South Africa

(November 2025) - Read Article

Ahead of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, Canada and South Africa were in talks to boost trade and investment that would see more wine on Canadian shelves in exchange for LNG shipments ^[12].

"We are pursuing a strategic partnership with Canada," South African High Commissioner Rieaz Shaik said via reporting by The Globe and Mail.

"I'm calling it a gas-for-wine deal."

The Commissioner said that his country is interested in LNG from Canada if the infrastructure exists. The talks focused on five key sectors, including agriculture, infrastructure, mining, energy, and tech.

🇩🇪 Germany

(September 2025) - Read Article

Germany’s government once again expressed interest in diversifying trade with Canada as a key partner, as officials met in Europe with Prime Minister Mark Carney in late August of 2025.

Not long afterwards, Germany’s Ambassador to Canada, Matthias Lüttenberg, told The Logic in an interview that his country sees natural gas as a bridging fuel that could be used for a very long time ^[13].

“We seek diversification of sources here and there,” the ambassador said.

“We can have both in parallel,” he added, referring to hydrogen and LNG imports from Canada.

🇪🇺 Europe

(September 2025) - Read Article

European Parliament president Roberta Metsola agreed that Europe is a market for Canadian oil and gas ^[13].

In an interview with Vassy Kapelos of CTV News, she signalled that the European Union (EU) member states may be willing to pay more for Canada’s conventional energy (oil and gas), as the region looks to further divest trade with Russia.

“If you see how we have pivoted over the last years, we found ourselves when Russia invaded Ukraine, that we were completely, to a certain extent, reliant on a very unreliable partner for gas and oil, and that meant that we have had to divest, uncouple ourselves, and we’re almost completely done,” she said.

“To do that, we need to find alternative sources.”

🇵🇱 Poland

(August 2025) - Read Article

In the news, Witold Dzielski, Poland’s Ambassador to Canada, notes that much Canadian-made energy is reaching Europe via U.S. ports ^[14].

“Remember; some of the LNG that’s coming from the United States to Europe, to Poland, is also Canadian … but it’s being sold for a much higher price,” Witold Dzielski told the CBC after being asked whether there was Polish demand for Canadian LNG.

The Polish Ambassador is on the record as far back as 2022 saying that his country, as well as broader Europe, is interested in sourcing Canadian-made LNG to help diversify supply chains away from

🇹🇼 Taiwan  

(November 2024) - Read Article

Taiwan joins Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines as Asian nations that have said they want or would be interested in buying Canadian-made LNG.

Chern-Chyi Chen, Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and a senior government official, said that his country is in close contact with LNG proponents in B.C. and is “eager” to buy LNG from Canada.

“It might be something like now you need to invest in order to get the supply,” said Chen via reporting by The Globe and Mail.

“In that case, of course, we will be interested in investing for a guarantee of the supply.”

Taiwan is already a 15% shareholder of LNG Canada, a project that will begin operations sometime in 2025. With a second phase of development under review, which would double the project’s export capacity, LNG Canada could provide even more energy to Asia in the years ahead.

🇵🇭 Philippines

(May 2024) - Read Article

The Philippines’ top diplomat, Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo, said his country is open to discussions on trade and investment opportunities – including LNG – in B.C and Canada at a keynote in Vancouver this past May.

“For trade and investment, this is part of our overall approach – trying to find and build on areas aside from traditional areas of trade and investment to find new ones,” said Manalo, via reporting by the Prince George Citizen.

“We know it's not that easy to shift from traditional to new [energy], so we, in the meantime, still have to focus a lot on our traditional energy sources, which include coal,” he continued. 

“But LNG is another area that we're exploring. In fact, we're having talks with countries … and are certainly open to having discussions with Canada or companies here. ... [We are] also focusing on other renewable energies such as wind and sun, so it's a total mix.” 

The Philippines envisions the build-out of LNG terminals, pipelines, and power plants, potentially becoming an LNG import hub in southeast Asia, according to sources ^[11] --- an opportunity Canadians cannot miss.

🇵🇱 Poland 

(April 2024) - Read Article

Andrzej Duda made a trip to Canada in April of 2024, a month after the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos. During his visit, Poland’s president was asked if his country would be interested in buying Canadian LNG if it were made available.

“Of course,” Duda responded to CTV’s Vassy Kapelos.

“If Canada is ready to supply LNG to Poland, we have got our LNG terminal… right now,” said Duda, adding that his country plans to expand its existing infrastructure via reporting by CTV.

A few years prior, Witold Dzielski, Poland’s ambassador to Canada, also went on the record to discuss the energy needs of Europe and how Canada could help support global energy security. Dzielski’s response was what you would expect from a country whose continent was in dire need of finding new, reliable energy supplies.

“We hope that Canada, being a superpower in the area of resources, will be able to send gas to Poland, and to the region, in order to support the diversification of energy sources,” said Dzielski, when asked if his government had engaged with Canada on finding new gas supplies due to the geopolitical situation in Europe ^[7].

Unfortunately, Canada has not yet committed to providing Poland and its European allies with our reliable LNG supply.

🇬🇷 Greece

(March 2024) - Read Article

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Canada to discuss how Greece could deepen its friendship with Canada. During his stay, in an interview with CTV, Mitsotakis said that his country would “absolutely” be interested in purchasing Canadian LNG, if the resource were made available to his country ^[10].

“We are a big entry point for LNG, not just for the Greek market, but also for the Balkans, for Eastern Europe,” Mitsotakis said. “Theoretically, we could even supply Ukraine.”

“So, in principle, yes, we are very interested in obtaining LNG at competitive prices. As fast as we go in terms of our renewable penetration, we will still need a reliable source of electricity, and for us, for Greece, we don't have nuclear, we’re practically, or completely, moving away from coal, so that leaves natural gas for the foreseeable future as a significant source of energy, for the production of electricity.”

“Canada is a country with which we share so many values,” he continued.

Unfortunately for Mitsotakis, there are currently no export licenses granted for any LNG facilities on Canada’s east coast.

🇰🇷 South Korea

(February 2023) - Read Article

Early in 2023, Japanese and South Korean officials participated in a webinar where they shared their eagerness to receive the first imports of Canadian natural gas from the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat ^[8].

“The world is waiting for Canada,” said Yamanouchi Kanji, Japanese ambassador to Canada. “Canada can and should play a very important role to support the energy situation not only in Japan and South Korea, but the world.”

A few months later, Canadian officials went to South Korea to discuss energy security, among other things.

“I don’t think there was a time when Korea and Canada were so close as now, and I don’t think we’ve had any period where our two leaders have met so frequently,” Lim Woongsoon, South Korea’s ambassador to Canada via reporting by Chat News Today ^[9].

Woongsoon believes that LNG Canada – a project in which both his country and Japan have invested in – will get the go-ahead for phase 2 of development, which will increase its export capacity from 14 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) up to 26 mtpa.

“Our imports of LNG will be on the increase for the decades to come, because we need to phase down coal power plants … rather dramatically, and LNG will be the most feasible alternative,” he said.

With LNG Canada expected to send its first gas shipment to Asia sometime in 2025, South Korea and Japan don’t have to wait much longer. As two of the largest LNG importers in the world, they have since signed multiple supply deals with other countries abroad such as Australia, Qatar, Oman, and the U.S.

🇯🇵 Japan 

(January 2023) - Read Article

Japan’s multiple LNG supply deals with Australia, Oman, the U.S., and others show it is full speed ahead in seeking economic opportunity through supply chain diversification for energy and food ^[6].

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with Canadian government officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in early 2023, where he made it clear that his nation wants Canadian-made LNG.

“The world is having an energy crisis,” Kishida said. “We also want to have a closer relationship with Canada in the area of energy.”

“We’re facing an energy crisis and countries around the world are trying to strike a balance between ensuring a stable supply of energy, as well as the other side, the decarbonization. In that sense, I am confident that Canada will play a major role as a resource-rich country,” Kishida said to Trudeau, via reporting from The Globe and Mail.

With no commitments from Canada to boost LNG supplies to Japan, Kishido turned to other sources for new natural gas supplies.

🇩🇪 Germany

(August 2022) - Read Article

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz was yet another foreign leader who has asked for Canadian-made LNG. Scholz has stated that his country and Europe prefer Canadian LNG over other sources of supply found abroad ^[4].

“As Germany is moving away from Russian energy at warp speed, Canada is our partner of choice. For now, this means increasing our LNG imports. We hope that Canadian LNG will play a major role in this,” the Chancellor said while visiting Canada in August 2022.

Since leaving with no promises for Canadian LNG, Germany has signed multi-decade LNG deals worth billions of dollars with Qatar, Oman, the United States and other suppliers.

Meanwhile, the EU member state has also managed to build LNG import terminals in record time, with the first three opening for shipments in January of last year.

🇪🇺 Europe

(August 2022) - Read Article

Chancellor Scholz has repeatedly reiterated Europe also wants more Canadian-made LNG. In an interview with Vassy Kapelos on CBC News Network’s Power & Politics, Scholz made it clear that he speaks not only for Germany, but also for Europe ^[5].

"We would really like Canada to export more (liquefied natural gas, LNG) to Europe," Scholz said.

"We have not built terminals for importing liquid natural gas to Germany at our own shores in the north. This is what we are changing now … We will build ports, at many places, for importing natural gas, liquid natural gas, LNG, and this will really make a difference."

Scholz lived up to his promise of new LNG import facilities, built in just months, in record time.

🇺🇦 Ukraine

(June 2022) - Read Article

Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada has expressed her country’s desire to source Canadian energy as an alternative to Russian fuels ^[3].

In mid-2022, Yulia Kovaliv called on Canadian oil and gas companies to help in the fight against Russia by entering and expanding into Europe’s energy market.

“Canada, we do believe, and the other countries... have to support us in providing the additional sources of energy since the European continent is rethinking, in general, their energy security,” said Kovaliv at an energy conference in Canada.

A few years have passed since the latest war in Ukraine began, and all east coast LNG projects in Canada are now defunct. What an absolute shame.

🇱🇻 Latvia

(March 2022) - Read Article

Not long after the war in Ukraine began early in 2022, Latvia said it would welcome shipments of Canadian LNG to Europe to help reduce its reliance on Russian natural gas ^[2].

Kaspars Ozolins, Latvia’s ambassador to Canada, said there was a proposal to build a new LNG import terminal near the Baltic Sea port of Skulte, and that his country would encourage Canadian investors.

“We are trying to build a resilient energy system,” Mr. Ozolins said in an interview.

“If Canada is going to invest in LNG, we would wholeheartedly support it.”

It’s not far off to say that if Canada had a readily available LNG supply on its east coast, European countries like Latvia would more than likely be interested in buying it.

The World Needs More 🇨🇦 Energy

Global natural gas demand is projected to grow for decades – yet Canada's LNG development timelines continue to lag behind those of competitors such as Australia, Qatar, the United States, and the UAE, all of which are rapidly expanding their export capacity.

The stakes are high: supply that doesn't come from Canada will be captured by other producers. With significant economic headwinds at home, Canada cannot afford to lose ground in the global LNG race. LNG development means real jobs, real investment, and long-term prosperity built on resources we already have in abundance.

Some proposed facilities are moving forward, with select projects named as national priorities by the federal government, but more is needed to attract the capital this sector requires.

It's time to build Canada up through new critical-mineral mines, LNG facilities, transmission lines, nuclear plants, oil projects, forestry operations, and everything in between to secure our economic future!

Our competitors and trading partners are moving full speed ahead with LNG, and we can't afford to fall behind on this opportunity.

As long as the world needs natural gas, it should be coming from Canada. pic.twitter.com/QcWII5fSw1

— LNG Action (@LNGAction) May 19, 2026

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