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Port Dolphin Energy Requests Additional Time to Construct Onshore Pipeline for Deepwater Port

Port Dolphin Energy LLC (PDE) filed a request with FERC to extend to December 31, 2018 the deadline by which PDE must complete construction and place into service the onshore portion of a pipeline to interconnect with PDE’s proposed Deepwater Port (DWP) terminal offshore of Tampa, Fla.  PDE states that although its DWP was initially planned to receive LNG imports, its project is still...

FERC Releases Final EIS for Corpus Christi LNG Terminal

Today, FERC released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Corpus Christi LNG import and export terminal project and interconnected pipeline near Corpus Christi, Texas.  The EIS finds that construction and operation of the project, with recommended mitigation measures, would avoid or minimize temporary and short-term environmental impacts, and long-term and permanent...

FERC to Prepare EIS’s for Louisiana LNG Energy and Downeast LNG Projects

FERC released notices of its intent to prepare environmental impact statements for Louisiana LNG Energy’s (LLNGE) proposed Mississippi River LNG export terminal project in Plaquemines Paris, La. and the proposed Downeast LNG import-export terminal in Robbinston, Maine.  Comments on the scope of the environmental review are due November 3, 2014 for each project.  The notice for the...

Applied LNG Announces Completion of Second LNG Production Train in Topock, Arizona

Applied LNG announced the completion of its second Liquefied Natural Gas production train in Topock, Arizona. This second train is located adjacent to Applied’s first train. The new liquefier has a production capacity 86,000 gallons per day, bringing the company’s total LNG production capacity to more than 170,000 gallons per...

PHMSA OKs EcoEléctrica’s Design Spill Criteria for LNG Pipeline

The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration has filed a letter with FERC stating that it has no objection to EcoEléctrica’s methodology for determining the single accidental leakage sources used to establish design spill criteria for the siting of EcoEléctrica’s LNG Pipeline Project in compliance with PHMSA’s pipeline safety regulations.  The pipeline project will...

FERC Releases Schedule for Environmental Review of EcoEléctrica’s LNG Supply Pipeline

FERC has released the schedule for environmental review of EcoEléctrica’s LNG Supply Pipeline Project (Project), consisting primarily of a 6-inch pipeline running approximately 3,600 feet from EcoEléctrica’s LNG import terminal in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico to a non-jurisdictional LNG Truck Loading Facility, owned and operated by Gas Natural Puerto Rico, Inc., which would be utilized to...

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