TransCanada to Build Pipeline Associated with Manzanillo LNG
Posted on May 8, 2009 in Canada & Mexico, Pipelines, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on TransCanada to Build Pipeline Associated with Manzanillo LNG
Platts LNG Daily [subscription required] reports that TransCanada was successful in its bid to build, own, and operate the 193-mile Guadalajara Pipeline that will transport gas imported to the Manzanillo LNG terminal to the city of...
FERC Issues Conditional Approval for Freeport LNG’s Re-Export, Liquefaction, and Truck Delivery Proposals
Posted on May 7, 2009 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on FERC Issues Conditional Approval for Freeport LNG’s Re-Export, Liquefaction, and Truck Delivery Proposals
Subject to a number of environmental conditions, FERC has approved Freeport LNG Development, L.P.’s proposal to re-export up to 24 Bcf of foreign-sourced LNG over a two-year period. FERC also approved Freeport’s proposals to add a boil-off gas liquefaction system to its facility and to accept LNG deliveries via truck for the purpose of maintaining its storage tanks in a...
New York Requests FERC Withdraw Authorization of Broadwater LNG Project
Posted on May 7, 2009 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on New York Requests FERC Withdraw Authorization of Broadwater LNG Project
The New York State Department of State (NYSDOS) has renewed its demand that FERC “withdraw or vacate its March 20, 2008, Order authorizing the siting, construction and operation” of the Broadwater LNG import project. The U.S. Secretary of Commerce recently sustained New York State’s Coastal Zone Management Act consistency objection to the project. The NYSDOS’s...
El Paso Official Skeptical of West Coast LNG
Posted on May 6, 2009 in Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on El Paso Official Skeptical of West Coast LNG
Jim Cleary, president of El Paso’s Western Pipeline division, told Platts LNG Daily that he does not believe that the LNG import projects planned for Oregon will go forward “in the foreseeable future.” Cleary made the remarks while discussing western U.S. natural gas production and his company’s efforts to build a new pipeline from a production area in the...
Oregon Grants Fourth Stay in Bradwood Landing LNG CZMA Consistency Review
Posted on May 6, 2009 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Oregon Grants Fourth Stay in Bradwood Landing LNG CZMA Consistency Review
The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and Bradwood Landing LLC have agreed to a fourth stay in the review of the project’s consistency with Oregon’s federally approved Coastal Zone Management Plan. Under the terms of the stay, the review period for the project will remain open an additional 180 days beginning May 5, 2009, and Oregon’s...
Protestors Voice Opposition to Foreign Construction Workers at Canaport LNG Terminal Site
Posted on May 6, 2009 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Protestors Voice Opposition to Foreign Construction Workers at Canaport LNG Terminal Site
CBC reports that a labor dispute led four unemployed men to prevent a busload of Polish workers from entering the Canaport LNG import terminal site yesterday. The unemployed men were protesting the difficulty they have had obtaining work on the Canaport LNG project. A spokesperson for the Canaport project clarified that the dispute is between one of the facility’s contractors and...