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CME Group and Cheniere Energy to Develop LNG Futures Contract

CME Group has announced that it has reached an agreement with Cheniere Energy, Inc. under which CME Group will develop an LNG futures contract with physical delivery to Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, La.
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Trafigura Signs 3-Year Purchase Contract for Freeport LNG Volumes

Freeport LNG Marketing, LLC, has announced that it has entered into a binding mid-term sales and purchase agreement with Trafigura Pte Ltd (Trafigura) under which Trafigura will purchase 0.5 million tonnes of LNG annually over three years, beginning July 1, 2020, from the Freeport LNG export terminal under construction on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas.
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Bechtel Receives Notice to Proceed for CCL Train 3 Construction

Bechtel has announced that it has received full notice to proceed for the construction of the Train 3 expansion at the Corpus Christi Liquefaction (CCL) liquefaction and LNG export terminal project in Corpus Christi, Texas.  According to the press release, the CCL expansion includes construction of liquefaction Train 3, an LNG tank, and the completion of a second LNG loading berth, in addition to the existing construction of two LNG trains, two tanks, and a docking facility. The expansion will add 4.5 million tonnes of LNG per year to the plant capacity.    ...
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Sempra Selects EPC Contractors for Proposed Gulf Coast and Mexico LNG Export Terminals

Sempra LNG & Midstream (Sempra), a unit of Sempra Energy, has announced that a partnership of TechnipFMC and Kiewit has been selected as the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPC) contractor for the proposed Energía Costa Azul (ECA) liquefaction and LNG export terminal project to be located adjacent to ECA’s existing regasification plant in Baja California, Mexico. Sempra also announced that its wholly-owned affiliate, Port Arthur LNG, LLC, has selected Bechtel as the EPC contractor for the proposed Port Arthur liquefaction and LNG export terminal project in...
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DOE Releases 2018 LNG Export Study

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a notice requesting public comment on a new study entitled Macroeconomic Outcomes of Market Determined Levels of U.S. LNG Exports (Study). According to the notice, DOE commissioned the Study to inform DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy’s decisions on applications seeking authorization to export domestically produced LNG from the lower-48 states to countries with which the United States does not have a free trade agreement. The Study, performed by NERA Economic Consulting, “examines the probability and macroeconomic impact of various...
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CCL Requests Authorization to Commission Train 1

Corpus Christi Liquefaction (CCL) has filed a request with FERC for authorization to introduce fuel gas to commission Train 1 at its liquefaction and LNG export terminal under construction at Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Cove Point LNG Terminal to Undergo Brief Maintenance Shut Down

Reuters reports that Dominion Energy’s (Dominion) Cove Point LNG production and export terminal at Lusby, Md., will undergo a brief shut down for maintenance this coming Fall, possibly for only a few weeks.  According to Dominion’s Chief Executive Officer Thomas Farrell, the Cove Point facility, with a nameplate annual capacity of 5.25 million tonnes of LNG, has been at full production of LNG since April 2018.  According to the report, the project’s capacity is under contract for 20 years to a subsidiary of GAIL (India) and to ST Cove Point, a joint venture between units of Japanese trading...
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