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Excelerate Energy’s Northeast Gateway Offshore Terminal Delivers Record LNG Output

Excelerate Energy announced that its Northeast Gateway deepwater terminal, located in Massachusetts Bay, 13 miles offshore of Boston, reached a historic peak send-out flow rate of more than 800,000 MMBtu/day of LNG on February 1, 2019. The Northeast Gateway terminal consists of a dual submerged turret-loading buoy system which allows for the connection of floating storage and...

FERC Vacates Aguirre Offshore GasPort Authorization

FERC has issued an order granting Aguirre Offshore GasPort, LLC’s (Aguirre) request that FERC vacate its 2015 order authorizing the construction and operation of LNG import terminal facilities along the southern shore of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico near the municipality of Salinas. In its request to vacate, Aguirre stated that it no longer intends to proceed with the project, that...

Exelon Generation to Acquire Everett LNG Import Terminal

Exelon Generation announced an agreement to purchase ENGIE North America’s Everett Marine Terminal, also known as the Distrigas Terminal, an LNG import terminal located in Boston, Mass.  According to the press release, the purchase is meant to ensure the continued reliable supply of fuel to Exelon Generations’ Mystic Units 8 and 9 while they remain operating.  Transaction closure is...

ENGIE and AES Andres DR Agree to Joint Marketing Agreement

ENGIE and AES Andres DR, S.A. (AES Andres), a subsidiary of The AES Corporation, announced that they have agreed to enter into a 12-year binding agreement to jointly market 0.7 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG in the Caribbean.  Under the agreement, ENGIE will provide up to 0.7 mtpa of LNG, primarily from the Cameron LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, La., which is expected to come...

FERC Dismisses Downeast LNG Applications

FERC issued an order today dismissing and terminating Downeast LNG (Downeast) and affiliates’ applications for a bidirectional import/export LNG terminal and associated pipeline facilities near Robbinston, Maine. FERC stated: “Downeast’s project has been before the Commission in one form or another for more than ten years. There has been essentially no progress at all toward completion...

Fortis Signs Agreement to Supply LNG to Hawaii Electric

Fortis Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, Fortis Hawaii Energy Inc., entered into an agreement to supply Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. with 800,000 metric tons/year of LNG over 20-years from FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG facility in Delta, British Columbia, starting in 2021. According to the press release, to accommodate the agreement, a further expansion at FortisBC’s...

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