Repsol Sole Bidder to Supply Mexican LNG Import Facility
Posted on Sep 6, 2007 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Repsol Sole Bidder to Supply Mexican LNG Import Facility
Oil Daily (carried via Energy Intelligence [subscription required]) reports that Spanish company Repsol YPF was the sole bidder to supply LNG to the Manzanillo LNG project on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Repsol will begin supplying 90 MMcf/d in 2011 with planned volumes to reach 500 MMcf/d in 2015. Repsol will obtain these supplies from its share of Peru’s Camisea...
Sempra Energy Moves Forward on North American LNG Projects
Posted on Sep 6, 2007 in Canada & Mexico, Pipelines, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Sempra Energy Moves Forward on North American LNG Projects
Forbes offers an analysis of Sempra Energy’s rapid rise in the North American LNG market, noting that the company has received regulatory approval to build three terminals in North America. The first terminal to be completed, Costa Azul LNG off the coast of Baja California will deliver approximately 500 MMcf/d of natural gas to the California market via the North Baja gas...
Jordan Cove Energy Files LNG Terminal Application with FERC
Posted on Sep 5, 2007 in Federal Regulation, Pipelines, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Jordan Cove Energy Files LNG Terminal Application with FERC
Jordan Cove Energy Project L.P. issued a press release (carried via CNNMoney.com) yesterday announcing that it has filed its LNG terminal application with FERC following a sixteen-month pre-filing process. The Jordan Cove LNG project, proposed for Coos Bay, Ore., will offer 6.4 Bcf of storage and a regasification send-out capacity of 1 Bcf/d. Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline L.P. also...
Local Organizations Offer Support for Mass. LNG Project
Posted on Sep 5, 2007 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Local Organizations Offer Support for Mass. LNG Project
The Herald News (Fall River, Mass.) offers further details on the letters of support filed with FERC supporting the Weaver’s Cove LNG proposal by the Construction and General Laborers Local 610 and the Massachusetts Chemistry and Technology Alliance. The business manager for Local 610, based in Fall River, said that the organization “overwhelmingly approved” the...
NATS: August LNG Import Total Tops 85 Bcf
Posted on Sep 5, 2007 in Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on NATS: August LNG Import Total Tops 85 Bcf
NATS reports that U.S. LNG import terminals sent out 85 Bcf of natural gas during the month of August, marking the fourth-highest monthly tally of 2007. NATS’ LNG Week in Review goes on to discuss the perceived supply shortfall, particularly in the Atlantic Basin, as one of the limiting factors affecting the development of LNG import capacity. [Subscription...
Developers Debate Safety of Quebec LNG Terminal Sites
Posted on Sep 4, 2007 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security | Comments Off on Developers Debate Safety of Quebec LNG Terminal Sites
The Montreal Gazette reports that the developers of competing LNG terminal projects in Quebec, Canada, each claim that its respective project site is more appropriate for an LNG terminal than the other’s. The developers of the Rabaska LNG terminal, proposed for Lévis, told the publication last month that it investigated and dismissed the Gros Cacouna site due to wind and ice...