In March 2022, MDN brought you news of a bold new plan by EQT CEO Toby Rice to “unleash” American LNG exports to not only help our friends in Europe but also to reduce the amount of coal use across the world, thereby lowering coal-related emissions including carbon dioxide (see EQT CEO Toby Rice Unveils…
Read More...The American Gas Association (AGA) is a trade organization founded in 1918 that represents and advocates for local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States. With more than 200 members (BIG companies), the AGA educates the public about the importance of natural gas, supports natural gas utilities in their efforts to make…
Read More...An increasingly important market for U.S. natural gas, especially gas coming from the Marcellus/Utica, is LNG exports. The gas that flows to LNG export plants feeding the plants so they can liquefy and export it, is called feedgas. The U.S. hit an all-time high of 13.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of feedgas flowing…
Read More...Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility recently received Federal Energy Regulatory Committee (FERC) authorization to place the final three liquefaction blocks (7-9) into service (see Venture Global Gets FERC OK to Commission 3 Calcasieu Pass Trains). The other trains, 1-6, have been online for 18 months but are not officially in commercial service, even…
Read More...Three weeks ago, MDN warned you about delays with LPG (propane) and LNG ships transiting the Panama Canal (see Drought Along Panama Canal Causing Delays in Propane, LNG Exports). According to the Panama Canal Authority (APC), water levels at Gatún Lake are the lowest since at least 1995 due to an extended dry season and…
Read More...Watch out Marcellus/Utica, and Haynesville, and Permian, and Eagle Ford, and Bakken, and SCOOP/STACK, and other major U.S. shale plays. You may have a new competitor coming (way) south of the border. Argentina has just elected a new President, Javier Milei, who promises to unleash his country’s oil and gas industry. Argentina is reputed to…
Read More...Earlier this year, Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Sempra, announced it had reached a positive final investment decision (FID) for the development, construction, and operation of the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project in Jefferson County, Texas (see Port Arthur LNG Pulls Trigger on FID, Tells Builder to Start Work). Sempra worked out all of…
Read More...Freeport LNG’s export facility on Quintana Island, TX, is again experiencing problems. Freeport LNG’s export terminal with three liquefaction “trains” shut down in June 2022 after an explosion and fire (see Explosion Rocks Freeport LNG Export Plant – Offline for 3 Weeks). What was initially thought to be a three-week outage lasted for ten months!…
Read More...The ignominious end of an era. For a full ten years, MDN has covered the story of Canadian company Pieridae Energy and its quest to build the Goldboro LNG export project in Nova Scotia, using Marcellus/Utica molecules to feed it (see our extensive list of Pieridae stories here). Yesterday, Pieridae issued its third quarter update….
Read More...Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility recently received Federal Energy Regulatory Committee (FERC) authorization to place the final three liquefaction blocks (7-9) into service (see Venture Global Gets FERC OK to Commission 3 Calcasieu Pass Trains). The other trains, 1-6, have been online for 18 months but are not officially in commercial service, even…
Read More...In March, Chesapeake Energy announced a 15-year deal to provide natural gas for LNG exports to Gunvor Singapore Pte (see Chesapeake Cuts Back on Marcellus, Signs Haynesville LNG Deal). In an interview with S&P Global Commodity Insights at the time, Chesapeake CEO Nick Dell’Osso expressed the view that over the next several years, as much…
Read More...Freeport LNG’s export terminal with three liquefaction “trains” shut down in June 2022 after an explosion and fire (see Explosion Rocks Freeport LNG Export Plant – Offline for 3 Weeks). What was initially thought to be a three-week outage lasted for ten months! The plant finally returned online in March of this year (see Freeport…
Read More...According to analysis from Enverus Intelligence, in the first nine months of 2023, U.S. LNG developers signed 14 long-term sales and purchase agreements totaling 19.65 mtpa (million tonnes per annum). That pace is far slower than in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine and set off a mass scramble by Europe to secure natgas supplies anywhere…
Read More...In April 2022, MDN told you about Nopetro LNG’s plans to construct and operate as many as three liquefaction trains in Port St. Joe, Florida, that would liquefy up to 3.86 billion cubic feet (Bcf) per year of natural gas for export and delivery to markets in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America (see…
Read More...In early August, MDN told you about trouble brewing along the Gulf Coast between Venture Global LNG and its biggest customers: BP, Shell, Edison International (an Italian utility company), Repsol, and GALP Energia. Venture Global is building the Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in southwestern Louisiana’s Cameron Parish, less than 50 miles south of Lake…
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