FERC Dismisses Downeast LNG Applications
Posted on Aug 17, 2016
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 of an application in the past nine months and Downeast has presented nothing to persuade us that its situation is likely to change in the immediate future.”...
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Dominion Cove Point LNG Export Terminal 67% Complete
Posted on Aug 15, 2016
Dominion Resources announced that its subsidiary Dominion Cove Point LNG’s liquefaction and export terminal at Lusby, Md. is now 67% complete and “continues on time and on budget for a late 2017 in-service date.”
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Sabine Pass LNG to Begin Commissioning of Train 3
Posted on Aug 15, 2016
Sabine Pass LNG has filed a request with FERC for authorization to introduce fuel gas in order to begin commissioning activities for liquefaction Train 3 at its LNG export terminal at Cameron Parish, La. Sabine Pass LNG requests approval to introduce fuel gas to Train 3 by August 19, 2016.
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Sutherland’s Daily LNG Headlines will not be published August 8-12, 2016
Posted on Aug 5, 2016
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Carib Energy To Supply Puerto Rico Flour Plant with LNG
Posted on Aug 5, 2016
Carib Energy (USA) LLC, a subsidiary of Crowley Maritime Corp. (Crowley), has been awarded a multi-year contract to supply containerized LNG shipped from Crowley’s Jacksonville, Fla. terminal to Molinos de Puerto Rico, “the Caribbean arm of Ardent Mills LLC., the territory’s leading supplier of flour as well as wheat, corn and rice-based food ingredients.” The Molinos plant will use the regasified LNG for power consumption. ...
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Bear Head LNG Feeder Pipeline Approved
Posted on Aug 3, 2016
The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board has approved construction of the proposed Bear Paw Pipeline, a 62.5-km pipeline, which would interconnect with the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline (MN&P) mainline and other gas supply sources near Goldboro, Nova Scotia, and the proposed Bear Head LNG export facility in Point Tupper, Richmond County, Nova Scotia. Bear Paw’s interconnection with MN&P will provide Bear Head LNG with access to U.S. gas supplies. ...
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Tokyo Gas Looking to Swap U.S. LNG Supplies with Europe
Posted on Aug 1, 2016
Bloomberg reports that to reduce shipping times and costs, Tokyo Gas is in talks with unnamed European companies to swap Tokyo Gas’s LNG supplies to be produced at Dominion Cove Point LNG’s terminal in Lusby, Md. with European companies’ LNG supplies produced in Asia. According to the report, Japan is seeking flexibility in its LNG supply contracts, since it is “among countries forecast to have an LNG oversupply in the coming years, transforming some of the world’s biggest buyers of the fuel into sellers.”...
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