Pembina Prince Rupert Terminal (Watson Island)

Port Edward, BC · Municipal · Pembina Pipeline Corporation · Porpoise Harbour (Prince Rupert Harbour / Chatham Sound system), Pacific coast

Pembina's Prince Rupert Terminal is a propane (LPG) marine export facility on Watson Island, on City of Prince Rupert-owned land at Port Edward, outside the jurisdiction of the Prince Rupert Port Authority. It is a small-scale rail-to-marine terminal (no on-site processing or refrigeration) that moves propane from rail cars to ocean-going vessels via roughly 5 km of rail ladder tracks and three above-ground storage spheres, with a licensed capacity of 25,000 bbl/d (operating near 20,000 bbl/d). Built on a remediated brownfield brownfield (former Skeena Cellulose pulp mill site) for about CAD 250 million, it completed dry commissioning in March 2021 and loaded its first export cargo on April 9, 2021. The terminal handled approximately 502,800 tonnes of LPG in 2024, exporting to international (primarily Asian) markets.