Pricing Key to BC LNG Exports
Posted on Nov 9, 2012 in LNG Exports, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on Pricing Key to BC LNG Exports
An article in the Financial Post discusses the dilemma facing British Columbia LNG export terminal developers: long term LNG contracts linked to oil prices are essential to support development of LNG export terminals, but Asian LNG buyers want LNG contract prices to be linked to North American natural gas prices instead. On a related topic, research and consulting firm, Wood Mackenzie,...
Groups File Comments Against Oregon LNG DOE Export Application
Posted on Nov 9, 2012 in Federal Regulation, LNG Exports | Comments Off on Groups File Comments Against Oregon LNG DOE Export Application
Sierra Club and Columbia Riverkeeper, Citizens Against LNG, and the American Public Gas Association have filed comments with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in protest of the application filed by LNG Development Company, LLC (d/b/a Oregon LNG) to export LNG. Issues raised in the comments include potential environmental damage resulting from increased hydraulic fracturing and...
Hawaiian Gas Company Responds to Protests on LNG Import Proposal
Posted on Nov 6, 2012 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Hawaiian Gas Company Responds to Protests on LNG Import Proposal
The Gas Company (Company) filed answers to Blue Planet Foundation’s and Sierra Club’s protests filed at FERC on the Company’s proposal to import LNG into Hawaii. The Company’s response states (1) that its proposal is under FERC’s exclusive jurisdiction, (2) that environmental review is not required at this time and, in any event, the environmental impacts...
Excelerate Requests That FERC Initiate Pre-Filing Process
Posted on Nov 6, 2012 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, LNG Exports | Comments Off on Excelerate Requests That FERC Initiate Pre-Filing Process
Excelerate Liquefaction Solutions I, LLC, and Lavaca Bay Pipeline System, LLC, (collectively, Excelerate) have asked FERC to initiate the pre-filing environmental review process for Excelerate’s proposed Lavaca Bay LNG Project (Project). Excelerate proposes to build, own, and operate two purpose-built floating liquefaction, storage, and offloading units (“FLSO”) that...
European LNG Headlines
Posted on Nov 6, 2012 in Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on European LNG Headlines
Shell Withdraws from LNG Project in Sicily (Reuters)