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Sabine Pass LNG Files Monthly Construction Status Report

Sabine Pass LNG filed a report with FERC covering construction activities through November 2014 at its LNG export terminal in Cameron Parish, La.  Stage 1 (liquefaction trains 1 and 2) engineering and procurement are 100% complete, and subcontract and direct hire construction work are 52.8% and 53.4% complete, respectively.  Stage 1 overall project completion is 79% against the plan of...

Excelerate Requests that FERC Delay Consideration of Lavaca Bay LNG Project

Excelerate Liquefaction Solutions (Excelerate) has filed a motion requesting that FERC hold Excelerate’s Lavaca Bay LNG Export Project (Project) application in abeyance until April 1, 2015.  Excelerate states that “[r]ecent global economic conditions—including, among other things, a steep decrease in the price of oil—have created uncertainty regarding the economics of the Project,” and...

DOE Issues Tolling Order on Rehearing of Freeport LNG Export Authority

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a tolling order, which extends indefinitely the time by which DOE will act on Sierra Club’s request for rehearing of DOE’s prior orders authorizing LNG exports from the proposed Freeport LNG terminal on Quintana Island, Texas to nations without a free trade agreement with the United...

Air Flow North America Files for LNG Export Authority

Air Flow North America Corporation has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for authority to export 22,000 gallons of domestically sourced LNG per day over a 25-year period to any country in Central America, South America, the Caribbean or Africa, with which trade is not prohibited by the United States.  Air Flow proposes to export the LNG from Clean Energy...

FERC Approves Corpus Christi LNG Terminal Application

FERC has issued an order approving Cheniere Energy affiliate Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC’s application to construct and operate bi-directional LNG export and import facilities and an interconnected pipeline on the northern shore of Corpus Christi Bay in San Patricio and Nueces Counties, Texas.  The proposed facilities would have the capability to liquefy for export approximately...

Cheniere and EDP Energias de Portugal Sign Deal for Corpus Christi LNG Supplies

Yesterday, Cheniere Energy announced that its subsidiary, Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC has entered into an agreement with EDP Energias de Portugal S.A. (EDP) under which EDP will purchase approximately 0.77 million tonnes of LNG per year for 20 years from Train 3 of the proposed Corpus Christi LNG terminal near Corpus Christi, Texas.  EDP will purchase the LNG on a free on board...

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