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FERC Approves Modification to EcoEléctrica Authorization

On Thursday, FERC approved a modification to EcoEléctrica, L.P.’s authorization under the Natural Gas Act.  The approval authorizes EcoEléctrica to construct an LNG pipeline that will supply LNG to a non-jurisdictional LNG truck loading facility at EcoEléctrica’s existing liquefied natural gas terminal and cogeneration facility site in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico.  The facility is currently...

Cameron LNG Export Project and EcoEléctrica LNG Pipeline Proposals on FERC Meeting Agenda

Cameron LNG’s application to construct LNG export and pipeline facilities at its LNG terminal near Hackberry, La. is on FERC’s June 19, 2014 open meeting agenda.  Also on the agenda is EcoEléctrica’s application to construct an LNG supply pipeline from its terminal in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico to an LNG truck loading...

FERC Releases Environmental Assessment for EcoEléctrica’s LNG Pipeline

FERC has released its Environmental Assessment (EA) for EcoEléctrica’s proposed 0.4 mile pipeline to deliver LNG from its import terminal in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, to a planned non-FERC jurisdictional LNG Truck Loading Facility for delivery to large end-users to use as fuel.  The EA concludes that if EcoEléctrica constructs and operates the proposed facilities in accordance with its...

PHMSA OKs EcoEléctrica’s Design Spill Criteria for LNG Pipeline

The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration has filed a letter with FERC stating that it has no objection to EcoEléctrica’s methodology for determining the single accidental leakage sources used to establish design spill criteria for the siting of EcoEléctrica’s LNG Pipeline Project in compliance with PHMSA’s pipeline safety regulations.  The pipeline project will...

FERC Releases Schedule for Environmental Review of EcoEléctrica’s LNG Supply Pipeline

FERC has released the schedule for environmental review of EcoEléctrica’s LNG Supply Pipeline Project (Project), consisting primarily of a 6-inch pipeline running approximately 3,600 feet from EcoEléctrica’s LNG import terminal in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico to a non-jurisdictional LNG Truck Loading Facility, owned and operated by Gas Natural Puerto Rico, Inc., which would be utilized to...

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