FERC Terminates Pre-Filing Process for G2 LNG Export Project
Posted on Aug 30, 2017 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, LNG Exports | Comments Off on FERC Terminates Pre-Filing Process for G2 LNG Export Project
FERC Staff has sent a letter to counsel for G2 LNG, LLC (“G2 LNG”) stating that it was terminating the pre-filing environmental review process for G2 LNG’s proposed liquefaction and LNG export terminal on the west bank of the Calcasieu River in Cameron Parish, La. The letter states, among other things, that G2 LNG has not filed the draft resource reports “needed for staff to continue...
FERC Approves Pre-Filing Process for Port Fourchon LNG Project
Posted on Aug 21, 2017 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, LNG Exports | Comments Off on FERC Approves Pre-Filing Process for Port Fourchon LNG Project
FERC has issued a letter approving Fourchon LNG LLC’s (Fourchon) request to begin the pre-filing environmental review process for its proposed Port Fourchon LNG export terminal project on Belle Pass in Lafourche Parish, La. Fourchon plans to develop the terminal in two phases, with the first phase having a liquefaction capacity of two million metric tons of LNG per annum (MTPA), and...
U.S. LNG Arrives in Lithuania
Posted on Aug 21, 2017 in LNG Exports, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on U.S. LNG Arrives in Lithuania
Reuters reports that a cargo of LNG from Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, La. has reached Lithuania. According to Reuters, the LNG is for clients of a Lithuanian state-owned trader that are located in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The Lithuanian government estimates it will import half of its gas consumption in 2017 as LNG, mostly from Norway’s Statoil,...
IECA Urges Moratorium on Further Non-FTA LNG Exports
Posted on Aug 17, 2017 in Federal Regulation, LNG Exports, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on IECA Urges Moratorium on Further Non-FTA LNG Exports
Claiming that exporting LNG is “a manufacturing job destroyer” in the long run, the Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) have sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry which “provide[s] absolute justification for placing a moratorium” on further approvals of LNG exports to non-Free Trade Agreement (NFTA) nations. The letter urges Perry “to review...
Court Affirms Freeport LNG Export Authority
Posted on Aug 17, 2017 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, Litigation, LNG Exports | Comments Off on Court Affirms Freeport LNG Export Authority
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has denied Sierra Club’s challenge to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) orders approving LNG exports by Freeport LNG Expansion LP. According to the Law360 article, the court rejected Sierra Club’s argument that DOE did not tailor “its review of the indirect environmental effects of export-induced natural gas production — in particular, how...