FERC Releases Schedule For Driftwood LNG Environmental Review
Posted on Jan 2, 2018
FERC has released the schedule for its environmental review of Driftwood LNG, LLC’s (Driftwood) proposed liquefaction and LNG export terminal to be located on the west bank of the Calcasieu River between river mile markers 22 and 23 in Calcasieu Parish, La. FERC intends to release its Final Environmental Impact Statement for the project on October 12, 2018. Other federal agencies having jurisdiction over the project would then have until January 10, 2019, to complete their review. Driftwood is owned by Tellurian...
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Corpus Christi Liquefaction Files Construction Status Report
Posted on Dec 20, 2017
Corpus Christi Liquefaction has filed a report with FERC covering construction activities at its liquefaction and LNG export terminal at Corpus Christi, Texas, through November 2017. The report states that engineering has progressed to 100.0%, procurement has progressed to 93.9%, subcontract and direct hire construction work are 56.1% and 55.8% complete, respectively. The total project has progressed to 77.4% complete against the plan of...
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Dominion Energy Cove Point LNG Commercial Operations to Begin Early 2018
Posted on Dec 20, 2017
Dominion Energy has released a statement that it is “continuing with final commissioning work at its Cove Point LNG export facility in Lusby, MD, and looks forward to commercial operations early next year under the terms of previously negotiated 20-year contracts with ST Cove Point, which is the joint venture of Sumitomo Corporation and Tokyo Gas, and for GGULL, the U.S. affiliate of GAIL (India) LTD.” Dominion Energy also stated that “the characterization of contract renegotiations is false” and “there have been no changes in the contract terms since initial contract execution, and Dominion...
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Canada’s First LNG Export Shipment Arrives in China
Posted on Dec 15, 2017
FortisBC announced that its single ISO container shipment of LNG, the first LNG to be exported from Canada to China, arrived in China on Thursday. The LNG was produced at FortisBC’s Tilbury plant near Vancouver, British Columbia. According to the press release, since the LNG was shipped via container ship, bypassing receiving LNG terminals and regasification facilities, cost and infrastructure constraints of the conventional model of shipping by LNG tanker were avoided. “FortisBC is now looking forward to a new shipment of four ISO containers to China in mid-December and the prospect of...
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Bills Introduced to Expedite LNG Export Authorizations
Posted on Dec 13, 2017
On December 11, 2017, U.S. Congressman Bill Johnson (R-OH) introduced two bills related to LNG. The “Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act” (H.R. 4605) would allow domestic LNG suppliers “to export natural gas after completing the FERC review process – instead of waiting even longer for additional approval by the U.S. Department of Energy” (DOE). Tim Ryan (D-OH) is cosponsor of the bill. The “Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty and Access Act” (H.R. 4606) would codify the DOE’s proposed rule to encourage the exports of small volumes of natural gas, “as countries in the Caribbean, Central...
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Commissioning at Dominion Energy Cove Point LNG Plant Begins
Posted on Dec 6, 2017
Dominion Energy announced yesterday that feed gas has been introduced into its newly constructed Dominion Energy Cove Point LNG, LP (DECP) liquefaction facility, which is currently undergoing commissioning in Lusby, MD. According to the press release, “Shell NA LNG is providing the natural gas needed for liquefaction during the commissioning process and will off-take the LNG that is produced. When commissioning is complete, DECP will produce LNG for ST Cove Point, which is the joint venture of Sumitomo Corporation and Tokyo Gas, and for GGULL, the U.S. affiliate of GAIL (India) LTD under...
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Tokyo Gas Signs LOI with AGDC for Alaska LNG Project
Posted on Dec 6, 2017
Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) announced yesterday that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. “regarding the sale and purchase of LNG from AGDC to Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. as well as a commitment to explore other opportunities to materialize Alaska LNG.” The proposed Alaska LNG project consists of an 800-mile pipeline and LNG liquefaction and export facility “that will provide a direct and reliable link between the vast proven, conventional, natural gas resource on Alaska’s North Slope with the growing LNG markets in Asia.”...
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