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FERC to Prepare Environmental Impact Statement for Lavaca Bay Project

FERC will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to review the environmental impacts of Excelerate Liquefaction Solutions I, LLC’s proposed Lavaca Bay LNG Project and related pipeline in Calhoun and Jackson Counties, Texas. Comments on the scope of FERC’s environmental review are due April 4, 2013. FERC’s notice of the intent to prepare the EIS can be found...

Sabine Pass Requests Additional Export Authority and Initiates Pre-filing Procedures for Terminal Expansion

Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC (SPL) and affiliates filed a request that FERC initiate the pre-filing environmental review process for a proposed expansion of the existing Sabine Pass LNG Terminal in Cameron Parish, La. and interconnected pipeline. SPL proposes to construct two liquefaction trains (Trains 5 and 6) for additional liquefaction capacity of 1.3 Bcf/day. SPL’s...

Freeport-McMoRan Energy Files at DOE for LNG Export Authority

Freeport-McMoRan Energy LLC (FME) filed an application at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to export 24 million tons of LNG per year (approximately 1.248 trillion Btu) over a thirty-year period. FME seeks authority to export the LNG from its proposed Main Pass Energy Hub™ Deepwater Port in offshore Louisiana to nations with and without a Free Trade Agreement with the United States....

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