Industry Analyst Notes Challenges Facing Potential U.S. LNG Export Projects
Posted on Mar 7, 2012 in Federal Regulation, Financing, LNG Exports | Comments Off on Industry Analyst Notes Challenges Facing Potential U.S. LNG Export Projects
Leonard Crook, a vice president with ICF International, told World Gas Intelligence [subscription required] that the U.S. LNG export projects face a number of challenges. One challenge Crook highlighted is the U.S. Department of Energy’s authority to revoke an LNG export permit as an obstacle to project financing liquefaction...
Editorial: British Columbia Should Expect Tough Competition for LNG Exports
Posted on Mar 6, 2012 in Canada & Mexico, LNG Exports | Comments Off on Editorial: British Columbia Should Expect Tough Competition for LNG Exports
An editorial carried by the Vancouver Sun argues that British Columbia should expect tough competition to secure LNG customers around the world as the province develops its LNG export projects on Canada’s Pacific...
European LNG Headlines
Posted on Mar 6, 2012 in LNG Exports, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on European LNG Headlines
China Eyes Cyprus LNG Plant (Cyprus Mail) U.K. South Hook LNG Terminal to Get Cargo on March 13, Port Says (Bloomberg) Red Tape Pushes BG Group to Shelve Brindisi LNG Plant...
FERC Offers Comments on Freeport LNG Liquefaction Project Resource Reports
Posted on Mar 6, 2012 in Federal Regulation, LNG Exports | Comments Off on FERC Offers Comments on Freeport LNG Liquefaction Project Resource Reports
Yesterday, FERC issued its comments on Resource Reports 11 and 13 submitted to the Commission by Freeport LNG for its planned LNG liquefaction and export project. The filing is available in FERC’s eLibrary under Docket No....
Cove Point Files Second Cooling Cargo Settlement
Posted on Mar 5, 2012 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, LNG Exports, Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Cove Point Files Second Cooling Cargo Settlement
On March 2, 2012, Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP (“Cove Point”) filed a proposed settlement which would govern the terms of the second purchase and sale of LNG supplies needed to maintain the cryogenic portions of the Cove Point LNG terminal cooled to the temperature necessary to receive LNG imports. The settlement, necessitated by the lack of LNG imports to the terminal and...
Holder of U.S. LNG Export Authorization Hopes to Be Purchased
Posted on Mar 2, 2012 in LNG Exports, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on Holder of U.S. LNG Export Authorization Hopes to Be Purchased
Platts LNG Daily [subscription required] reports that Energy International Corp. (EIC) hopes that its U.S. Department of Energy authorization to export up to 200 Bcf over a two-year term will induce a party interested in exporting LNG to buy EIC. Aside from the authorization granted last year to Sabine Pass LNG, a representative for EIC said that its license is the only one that...