DOE Offers Summary of December LNG Permit Activities
Posted on Jan 26, 2012 in Federal Regulation, LNG Exports, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on DOE Offers Summary of December LNG Permit Activities
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a summary of the agency’s orders granting, amending and vacating authority to import and export natural gas and LNG during December 2011 in today’s Federal...
Investment Analysts Do Not Expect Significant North American LNG Exports This Decade
Posted on Jan 26, 2012 in LNG Exports, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on Investment Analysts Do Not Expect Significant North American LNG Exports This Decade
Analysts with Barclays Capital issued a report this week predicting that LNG exports from North America will total 2 Bcf/d by 2017. According to Platts LNG Daily, the analysts state that North American LNG export proposals face a number of regulatory and market challenges. [Subscription...
Panel Suggests EIA Study Overstates U.S. LNG Export Volumes
Posted on Jan 26, 2012 in LNG Exports, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on Panel Suggests EIA Study Overstates U.S. LNG Export Volumes
Speaking in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, two industry analysts agreed that a study published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) likely overstates the impacts of U.S. LNG exports on domestic gas prices. According to Platts, the analysts noted that the likely volume of LNG exports is far less than the 6-12 Bcf/d scenario analyzed by the...
Port of Brownsville Approves Lease Option for Site of Proposed Gulf Coast LNG Export Project
Posted on Jan 26, 2012 in LNG Exports, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Port of Brownsville Approves Lease Option for Site of Proposed Gulf Coast LNG Export Project
The Port of Brownsville has approved a lease option for the site of the proposed Gulf Coast LNG Export project. According to the Brownsville Herald, the site includes 500 acres of the Port’s...
United States Pushing LNG Exports to Pakistan
Posted on Jan 26, 2012 in LNG Exports, Markets and Competition, Policy, Legislation and Politics | Comments Off on United States Pushing LNG Exports to Pakistan
The Express Tribune (Pakistan) reports that U.S. embassy officials have lobbied the Pakistani government to replace planned natural gas purchases from Iran with less expensive natural gas supplies from the United States. A government official stated that the United States has not made any firm offer to supply LNG to Pakistan, but that the U.S. Agency for International Development...
Cheniere Submits Description of Corpus Christi LNG Liquefaction Project to FERC
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 in Federal Regulation, LNG Exports, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on Cheniere Submits Description of Corpus Christi LNG Liquefaction Project to FERC
Cheniere has filed a detailed project description for the company’s planned Corpus Christi LNG liquefaction project with FERC. The report, submitted under FERC’s pre-filing procedures, is available in the Commission’s eLibrary under Docket No. PF12-3. Separately, the Wall Street Journal [subscription required] offers an analysis of Cheniere Energy, concluding that the...