FERC Authorizes Dominion Cove Point Commissioning Activities
Posted on Sep 5, 2017
FERC has issued a letter authorizing Dominion Energy Cove Point LNG, LP (Dominion) to perform certain commissioning activities at its LNG export project at Lusby, Md. Dominion is authorized “to introduce hazardous fluids and perform related commissioning activities for the following: feed gas to the pretreatment and liquefaction areas and equipment related to ship loading, including the LNG loading pumps and return gas blowers.”...
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Fourchon LNG Files for DOE Export Authority
Posted on Sep 5, 2017
Fourchon LNG LLC (Fourchon LNG) has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for long-term, multi-contract authorization to export up to 260 Bcf/year of domestically produced LNG for 30 years to countries which have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States and for 20 years to any countries without an FTA with the United States. Fourchon LNG proposes to export the LNG from its planned LNG export terminal on Belle Pass in Port Fourchon, La....
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FERC Terminates Pre-Filing Process for G2 LNG Export Project
Posted on Aug 30, 2017
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 the environmental review of the project,” and “has not engaged any regulatory authorities or potentially affected stakeholders in the last 16 months, which is one of the main intended purposes of the pre-filing...
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FERC Approves Pre-Filing Process for Port Fourchon LNG Project
Posted on Aug 21, 2017
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 the second phase expanding the liquefaction capacity to a total of five million MTPA....
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U.S. LNG Arrives in Lithuania
Posted on Aug 21, 2017
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, with the remainder to be imported via a pipeline from Russia. Lithuania aims to reduce its dependence on Russia, and more U.S. LNG supplies from Cheniere Energy are expected to be shipped to Lithuania next year....
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IECA Urges Moratorium on Further Non-FTA LNG Exports
Posted on Aug 17, 2017
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 the Obama Administration’s DOE studies on the economic impacts of LNG exports that are being used to justify further export application approvals” since “the Obama Administration studies understate [cumulative...
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Court Affirms Freeport LNG Export Authority
Posted on Aug 17, 2017
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 such production might impact ozone concentration and water resources — to specific levels of exports or export-induced production.” The court “held that the DOE offered a solid explanation as to why those...
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