AltaGas’s Proposed Floating Liquefaction Facility Facing C$100 Million Customs Duty
Posted on Oct 27, 2015 in Canada & Mexico, Liquefaction, LNG Exports, Trade Restrictions | Comments Off on AltaGas’s Proposed Floating Liquefaction Facility Facing C$100 Million Customs Duty
AltaGas Ltd., one of the sponsors of the proposed Douglas Channel LNG export terminal at Kitimat, British Columbia, is delaying a final investment decision on the project pending the outcome of an appeal of a C$100 million federal customs duty imposed on a floating liquefaction plant that one of its partners, Belgium’s Exmar NV, is building for the project. According to a Business in...
Alaska Governor Walker Drops Proposed Gas Reserve Tax
Posted on Oct 27, 2015 in Liquefaction, LNG Exports, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Alaska Governor Walker Drops Proposed Gas Reserve Tax
KTOO reports that Alaska Governor Bill Walker has dropped his proposal to tax unproduced natural gas reserves at a special legislative session called to discuss the Alaska LNG Project, a proposed 800 mile pipeline, liquefaction and LNG export terminal. Walker dropped the tax proposal after receiving assurances from Alaska LNG Project sponsors BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, that...
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Files Application to Supply Cameron LNG Terminal
Posted on Oct 27, 2015 in Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, LNG Exports, Pipelines | Comments Off on Tennessee Gas Pipeline Files Application to Supply Cameron LNG Terminal
Tennessee Gas Pipeline (Tennessee) has filed an application with FERC to construct pipeline facilities to provide 295,000 Dth/day of incremental firm transportation capacity for Mitsubishi Corporation and MMGS, Inc., southward on Tennessee’s 800 Line to an existing point of interconnection with Cameron Interstate Pipeline, LLC, for subsequent delivery to Cameron LNG’s liquefaction and...
FERC Vacates Port Dolphin Energy’s Pipeline Certificate Authority
Posted on Oct 23, 2015 in Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on FERC Vacates Port Dolphin Energy’s Pipeline Certificate Authority
FERC has issued an order granting Port Dolphin Energy’s request to vacate its certificate authority to construct and operate the onshore portion of a pipeline which would interconnect to Port Dolphin’s proposed deepwater port LNG import terminal for offshore Tampa, Fla. In requesting the vacatur, Port Dolphin explained that due to changed market conditions it has been unable to...
FERC Approves Transco Feeder Pipeline to Serve Sabine Pass LNG Terminal
Posted on Oct 22, 2015 in Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, LNG Exports, Pipelines | Comments Off on FERC Approves Transco Feeder Pipeline to Serve Sabine Pass LNG Terminal
FERC has issued an order granting a certificate to Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line to construct the Gulf Trace Expansion Project, which consists of pipelines facilities to provide 1,200,000 Dth/day of incremental firm transportation service for Cheniere Energy subsidiary Sabine Pass LNG from Transco’s mainline to the Sabine Pass LNG export terminal under construction in Cameron Parish,...