Canaport LNG Terminal Advances Steadily
Posted on Jun 30, 2006 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Canaport LNG Terminal Advances Steadily
Yesterday’s Platts LNG Daily takes a detailed look at the 1 Bcf/d Canaport LNG terminal, a joint venture by Irving Oil and Repsol expected to start up by late 2009. According toPhillip Ribbeck, director of Repsol’s North American LNG operations, the New Brunswick-based project gained a competitive advantage over competing proposals by locking in certain construction costs last...
LNG Opposition Group Incorporates
Posted on Jun 26, 2006 in Canada & Mexico, Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on LNG Opposition Group Incorporates
The Canadian branch of the Save Passamaquoddy Bay LNG opposition group announced it had incorporated as a non-governmental organization under Canadian law, The Quoddy Tides reported on June 23. The group will act to prevent LNG tankers from sailing in Canadian waters and seek to influence the outcome of the Quoddy Bay and Downeast LNG proposals currently pending before FERC....
Editorial: Alaska LNG Proposal Less Beneficial to State than Natural Gas Pipeline
Posted on Jun 23, 2006 in Canada & Mexico, Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Editorial: Alaska LNG Proposal Less Beneficial to State than Natural Gas Pipeline
The Anchorage Daily News encourages readers to reviewthree separate studies, all of which conclude that a plan totransport Alaskan natural gas via a new pipeline to Valdez, liquefy it and ship it to LNG regasification terminals on the US and Canadian West Coastis less cost-effective than building a natural gas pipeline to U.S. Midwestern markets and shipping the gas there. The...
Assessing the Need for LNG in New England
Posted on Jun 13, 2006 in Canada & Mexico, Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Assessing the Need for LNG in New England
Diminishing global supply, rising costs, and a glut of LNG facility proposals in North America have some questioning the wisdom of two proposed terminals on Maine’s Passamaquoddy Bay. The Bangor Daily News offers this analysis of LNG’s future in the Northeast, which suggests that a lack of suppliers and pipeline capacity may frustrate efforts to add LNG terminals along...
Goldboro LNG Project Advancing
Posted on Jun 12, 2006 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Goldboro LNG Project Advancing
In an announcement on Friday, June 9, partners in the Goldboro Petrochemical and LNG regasification receiving terminal proposed in Goldboro, Nova Scotia, affirmed that the project is advancing. Partners Keltic Petrochemicals and Maple LNG are “in the final stages” of negotiating Maple LNG’s provision of LNG feedstock to Keltic’s petrochemical...
Bear Head LNG Receives Construction Permit
Posted on Jun 8, 2006 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Bear Head LNG Receives Construction Permit
The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board on Tuesday granted a construction permit for Anadarko Petroleum’s proposed 1 Bcf/d Bear Head LNG terminal. The Houston-based company had announced in March that it would slow already-permitted preliminary construction while negotiating with prospective suppliers. Ocean-Resources has the...