Op-ed: Cabrillo Port Debate is Uninformed
Posted on Mar 9, 2007 in Environmental, Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Op-ed: Cabrillo Port Debate is Uninformed
An American Spectator column published today criticizes opponents of the proposed Cabrillo Port offshore regas facility such as Keeley Shaye Brosnan, whom he claims is uninformed. Whalen writes, “the LNG proposal for Cabrillo Port is a significant and complicated idea, and deserves the support and even opposition of people who will learn something about the...
New Jersey Town Offers to Host LNG Facility
Posted on Mar 9, 2007 in Litigation, Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on New Jersey Town Offers to Host LNG Facility
A Pennsville, N.J. committeeman has proposed that BP build its Crown Landing LNG facility in the town instead of building the facility north of Pennsville in Logan Township. Thomas Strong said Pennsville would dredge a channel inland and allow the developer to avoid the jurisdictional dispute pending before the Supreme Court between New Jersey and Delaware. A spokesman for BP Crown...
Kenai Liquefaction Plant Applies to Extend Blanket Authorization to Export LNG
Posted on Mar 9, 2007 in Federal Regulation, Liquefaction | Comments Off on Kenai Liquefaction Plant Applies to Extend Blanket Authorization to Export LNG
The Department of Energy published notice in the Federal Register yesterday of an application for a 2-year extension of the Kenai liquefaction plant’s export permit, filed by co-owners ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. and Marathon Oil Co. The notice provides for a comment period ending April 9. Alaska Journal of Commerce has...
Uncertainty in Alaskan Market Affecting Kenai
Posted on Mar 8, 2007 in Liquefaction, Markets and Competition, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Uncertainty in Alaskan Market Affecting Kenai
An analysis in yesterday’s World Gas Intelligence [subscription required] posits that ConocoPhillips and Marathon sought only a 2-year extension on their export licenses for the Kenai, Alaska, liquefaction plant mainly because of growing constraints on supply for the local gas market and uncertainty over legislation providing for the development of a pipeline from the...
Today to be Record Day for LNG Regas in U.S.
Posted on Mar 8, 2007 in Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Today to be Record Day for LNG Regas in U.S.
According to data collected by the North American Terminal Survey (NATS ), today is scheduled to break the single-day record for LNG regasification in the U.S. The five active U.S. terminals are scheduled to regasify 3.3 Bcf. This quantity includes record utilization at both Cove Point and Lake Charles. These records come on the heels of a recently completed NATS analysis of the...