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FERC Releases Environmental Review Schedule for Commonwealth LNG

FERC has released the schedule for its environmental review of the proposed Commonwealth LNG, LLC liquefaction and LNG export facility and an associated natural gas pipeline in Cameron Parish, La. A draft environmental impact statement (EIS) is expected to be released in May 2020, and a final EIS is scheduled to be released on October 2, 2020. Other federal agencies’ reviews of the...

Dominion Energy Sells 25% Interest in Dominion Cove Point LNG

Dominion Energy, Inc. (“Dominion Energy”) announced that it has entered into an agreement with Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure fund managed by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (“Brookfield”), whereby Dominion Energy will transfer a 25% non-controlling equity interest in Dominion Energy Cove Point LNG, LP (“Cove Point”) to Brookfield in exchange for cash...

Pieridae Energy Acquires Shell Canada Gas Assets to Feed LNG Export Project

Pieridae Energy Limited, sponsor of the proposed Goldboro LNG liquefaction and export terminal in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, announced that it has closed its acquisition of all of Shell Canada Energy’s midstream and upstream assets in the southern Alberta Foothills (the “Assets”) for $190C million. According to the press release, in the first six months of 2019, the Assets...

Tellurian Signs Agreement to Sell LNG to Petronet

The Economic Times reports that Tellurian Inc., sponsor of the proposed Driftwood LNG export terminal (Driftwood) in Calcasieu Parish, La., has signed an initial agreement (memorandum of understanding) to sell LNG to India’s Petronet LNG. According to the report, Tellurian will deliver the LNG to India at a price of $6/MMBtu, “signalling a much lower price than the ceiling for output...

DOE Grants Non-FTA Export Authority to Venture Global Plaquemines LNG

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued an order authorizing Venture Global Plaquemines LNG, LLC (Plaquemines LNG) to export U.S.-sourced LNG to nations without a free trade agreement (non-FTA) with the United States. Plaquemines LNG is authorized to export up to 1,240 Bcf/year (3.4 Bcf/day) of LNG equivalent over a 20-year term from the proposed Plaquemines LNG Project in...

DOE Grants Non-FTA Export Authority to Eagle LNG Partners Jacksonville

The U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) has issued an order authorizing Eagle LNG Partners Jacksonville LLC (“Eagle LNG”) to export domestically produced LNG from its proposed LNG facility at Jacksonville, Fla., to nations without a free trade agreement (non-FTA) with the United States. Eagle LNG is authorized to export 0.14 Bcf/day of natural gas (49.8 Bcf/year or 1.0 million metric...

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