Scientists Oppose Petronas’s Proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG Terminal
Posted on May 31, 2016
A group of 90 international climate change scientists and climate policy experts has sent a letter to Canada’s Environmental Minister Catherine McKenna requesting that she “reject the proposed Pacific Northwest (PNW) LNG project due its significant adverse environmental effects from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.” Malaysian state oil company Petronas is the primary sponsor of the project. The letter states that the project “would be one of the single largest point source emitters in Canada[,] …would add between 18.5 and 22.5% to British Columbia’s (BC) total GHG emissions[,] … would make...
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Cheniere Announces Substantial Completion of Sabine Pass Train 1
Posted on May 31, 2016
Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. (Cheniere Partners) and Bechtel announced that they have achieved Substantial Completion of Train 1 of the Sabine Pass liquefaction and LNG export terminal project in Cameron Parish, La. According to the press release, “commissioning has been completed and Bechtel is turning over care, custody, and control of Train 1 to Cheniere Partners.” The first commercial deliveries for Train 1, under a sale and purchase agreement with BG Gulf Coast LNG, LLC (BG), is expected in November 2016. Prior to that date, BG has certain rights to early cargoes produced from...
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DOE Denies Rehearing of Orders Authorizing Corpus Christi Liquefaction and Sabine Pass Non-FTA Exports
Posted on May 27, 2016
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued two orders denying Sierra Club’s requests for rehearing of DOE orders which authorized: (1) Cheniere Marketing, LLC and Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC (CCL) to export LNG to nations without a Free Trade Agreement (non-FTA) from CCL’s proposed LNG terminal near Corpus Christi, Texas; and (2) Sabine Pass Liquefaction to export LNG to non-FTA nations from the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, La. In both orders, DOE rejected Sierra Club’s arguments that (1) the Natural Gas Act does not create a rebuttable presumption that natural gas...
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Flint Hill Resources Receives Non-FTA Export Authority
Posted on May 25, 2016
The U.S. Department of Energy has issued an order authorizing Flint Hill Resources, LP to export over a 20-year period up to 3.62 Bcf/year of domestically produced LNG in ISO containers or in bulk to nations without a Free Trade Agreement (non-FTA) with the United States from an LNG liquefaction facility owned by Stabilis LNG Eagle Ford, LLC in George West, Texas.
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Corpus Christi Liquefaction Submits Construction Progress Report
Posted on May 25, 2016
Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC has filed a report with FERC covering through April 2016 construction progress at its liquefaction and LNG export terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas. The reports states that (i) engineering has progressed to 98.0%, (ii) procurement has progressed to 46.9%, (iii) Bechtel’s direct hire construction through April was 5.7%, and (iv) the total Project has progressed to 33.5% complete....
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Alaska LNG Files Monthly Status Report
Posted on May 25, 2016
Alaska LNG has filed a report with FERC covering through April 2016 the status of pre-filing environmental review activities for its proposed liquefaction and LNG export terminal at Nikiski, Alaska and 800-mile interconnected pipeline. The report states that due to ongoing pre-Front End Engineering and Design (pre-FEED) and engineering optimization work, the submittal of a final application for the project “is expected to be a minimum of 3 months beyond the original date of September 2016.”...
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Fortis Signs Agreement to Supply LNG to Hawaii Electric
Posted on May 19, 2016
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 Tilbury LNG facility will be required. The deal is contingent upon government and regulatory approvals in both British Columbia and Hawaii and the approval of the merger of Hawaiian Electric and NextEra Energy...
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