DEIS Available for Beacon Port LNG
Posted on Mar 6, 2006 in Environmental, Liquefaction, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on DEIS Available for Beacon Port LNG
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration (MARAD) have made available the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for ConocoPhillips’ proposed Beacon Port LNG Deepwater Port in the Gulf of Mexico. The proposed terminal would be approximately 50 miles east-southeast of Galveston, Texas, and designed to handle an average delivery of approximately 1.5 billion standard...
Op-ed: Open-loop System Harms Marine Life
Posted on Mar 6, 2006 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Op-ed: Open-loop System Harms Marine Life
A Mobile, Ala. resident takes issue with the Mobile Register’s support for ConocoPhillips’ proposed Compass Port LNG terminal, saying the proposed open-loop regasification system is not worth endangering marine life near Dauphin Island. “If ConocoPhillips cannot operate the system as a closed-loop system and make money, it should not build the system until it can do...
Connecticut DEP and Governor’s Task Force Intervene in Broadwater Docket
Posted on Mar 3, 2006 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Connecticut DEP and Governor’s Task Force Intervene in Broadwater Docket
The Connecticut State Department of Environmental Protection yesterday petitioned to intervene in FERC’s review of the Broadwater LNG terminal, as did the Connecticut LNG Task Force. Conn. DEP’s petition asserts that “security zones associated with the proposed project are likely to lie, in part, within the territorial limits of” Connecticut. Today’s...
Local Coverage on Broadwater News Conference
Posted on Mar 3, 2006 in Environmental, Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Local Coverage on Broadwater News Conference
Newsday,The Connecticut Post , The Day cover yesterday’s Washington D.C. press conference on the Broadwater LNG proposal in Washington D.C.
LNG Developers Speak on Terminals in the Northeast
Posted on Feb 28, 2006 in Environmental, Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues, Vessel Transportation | Comments Off on LNG Developers Speak on Terminals in the Northeast
At the Winter 2006 Atlantic LNG and CLNG Symposium in Halifax yesterday, LNG terminal developers agreed that a gap exists between the acknowledged need for gas in the Northeast and the opposition to LNG facilities there. Moreover, Hess LNG President Gordon Shearer suggested that the lack of consensus cannot be resolved through education efforts by developers. “It is impossible to...
BP Touts Closed-Loop System at Crown Landing
Posted on Feb 27, 2006 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on BP Touts Closed-Loop System at Crown Landing
BP has gained the approval of some local environmentalists by promising its proposed Crown Landing terminal will use a closed-loop system to regasify imported LNG. In today’s Gloucester County Times, BP’s spokesperson said that “this closed loop system is more expensive, but we think it’s more appropriate.” Another BP spokesperson noted that, because the...