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Texas LNG Brownsville Submits Project Description with FERC

Texas LNG Brownsville LLC has submitted to FERC Draft Resource Report 1 (General Project Description) as part of the environmental review of its proposed 4 million tonnes per annum liquefaction and LNG export terminal on the Brownsville Ship Channel, Cameron County, Texas....

Sabine Pass LNG Files Construction Status Report

Sabine Pass LNG has filed a report with FERC on the status of construction, through September 2015, at its LNG export terminal in Sabine Pass, La. The report states that Stage 1 (Liquefaction Trains 1 and 2) overall project completion is 95.2% against the scheduled plan of 97.5%.  Fuel gas has been introduced into Train 1. Stage 2 (Liquefaction Trains 3 and 4) overall project...

N.J. Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. Urges Veto of Port Ambrose LNG Project

Yesterday, New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., sent a letter to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie urging him to “use the authority vested to [him] under the Deepwater Port Act” and veto Liberty Natural Gas’s proposed Port Ambrose Deepwater LNG Import Terminal for offshore New Jersey and New York.  The letter states that because “domestic natural gas production has been steadily...

Tohoku Electric Signs Deal with ENGIE for Cameron LNG Supplies

Hellenic Shipping News reports that Japanese company Tohoku Electric has signed an agreement with ENGIE (formerly GDF Suez) to purchase 270,000 million tonnes/year of LNG over 20 years from the Cameron LNG liquefaction and export terminal under construction near Hackberry, La. According to the report, the agreement includes provisions giving Tohoku Electric the flexibility to alter...

Petronas’s Pacific Northwest LNG Project “Shovel Ready” Once it Receives Permits

The Globe and Mail reports that the president of Pacific Northwest LNG, majority backed by Malaysian state oil company Petronas, has stated that despite a native group’s legal challenge of the project’s proposed site, his company is “shovel ready, and ready to move ahead as soon as we’ve got the final federal government approvals and final permits” for its proposed LNG export terminal,...

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