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Scientists Oppose Petronas’s Proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG Terminal

A group of 90 international climate change scientists and climate policy experts has sent a letter to Canada’s Environmental Minister Catherine McKenna requesting that she “reject the proposed Pacific Northwest (PNW) LNG project due its significant adverse environmental effects from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.”  Malaysian state oil company Petronas is the primary sponsor of the...

Cheniere Announces Substantial Completion of Sabine Pass Train 1

Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. (Cheniere Partners) and Bechtel announced that they have achieved Substantial Completion of Train 1 of the Sabine Pass liquefaction and LNG export terminal project in Cameron Parish, La.  According to the press release, “commissioning has been completed and Bechtel is turning over care, custody, and control of Train 1 to Cheniere Partners.”  The first...

DOE Denies Rehearing of Orders Authorizing Corpus Christi Liquefaction and Sabine Pass Non-FTA Exports

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued two orders denying Sierra Club’s requests for rehearing of DOE orders which authorized: (1) Cheniere Marketing, LLC and Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC (CCL) to export LNG to nations without a Free Trade Agreement (non-FTA) from CCL’s proposed LNG terminal near Corpus Christi, Texas; and (2) Sabine Pass Liquefaction to export LNG to...

Flint Hill Resources Receives Non-FTA Export Authority

The U.S. Department of Energy has issued an order authorizing Flint Hill Resources, LP to export over a 20-year period up to 3.62 Bcf/year of domestically produced LNG in ISO containers or in bulk to nations without a Free Trade Agreement (non-FTA) with the United States from an LNG liquefaction facility owned by Stabilis LNG Eagle Ford, LLC in George West, Texas.  ...

Corpus Christi Liquefaction Submits Construction Progress Report

Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC has filed a report with FERC covering through April 2016 construction progress at its liquefaction and LNG export terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas.  The reports states that (i) engineering has progressed to 98.0%, (ii) procurement has progressed to 46.9%, (iii) Bechtel’s direct hire construction through April was 5.7%, and (iv) the total Project has...

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