UK National Grid steps in with LNG deal for import terminal near Boston to stop all the lights going out in Massachusetts
The US subsidiary of the UK’s National Grid Plc, which has several transmission and utility businesses in the US Northeast, has asked Massachusetts utility regulators to approve an agreement with US company Constellation Energy that would keep the Everett liquefied natural gas import terminal near Boston in operation until at least 2030 and beyond.
Trinidad’s US cargoes
January 9 (LNGJ) - The Norwegian-flagged LNG carrier “BW Boston” with 138,060 cubic metres capacity has just departed from the US Everett LNG import terminal in Massachusetts after delivering a cargo from Trinidad, the Caribbean nation that used to be the biggest LNG supplier to the US before it became an exporter from the Lower 48 States in 2016.
This was the second LNG cargo delivered from the Caribbean to Everett near Boston this winter season with the previous shipment being discharged in December, according to shipping data. The Everett terminal is now owned by US power company Constellation Energy and is the longest-operating LNG import facility in the US. It is connected to two interstate pipelines in the Northeast as well as to the gas utility company’s electric distribution system and the Mystic gas-fired power plant, which may be shuttered in 2024.
