US shipments decline
May 1 (LNGJ) - The US shipped 11 LNG cargoes this week, which was two fewer than the previous week. Six shipments left Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, while one departed from Cheniere’s Corpus Christi facility in Texas and one from Cove Point in Maryland. At the three other plants, one was shipped from the Freeport plant in Texas, two departed from Sempra Energy’s Cameron facility in Louisiana and none from the newest facility, the Elba Island plant in Georgia, according to the Energy Information Administration.
US Gulf Coast LNG has abundant supplies to meet rising export demands from global buyers
The US expects to see the addition of up to 17 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas pipeline capacity by the year-end, mostly provided by takeaway capacity from supply basins for liquefied natural gas export facilities on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas and for pipelines to Mexico.
US to be third-largest LNG global exporter at the end of 2019 after Australia and Qatar
US LNG exports are expected to amount to 60 million tonnes per annum by the end of 2019, making the Americans the world’s third-largest exporters as more projects come on stream and are ramped up on the US Gulf Coast, including Cameron LNG in Louisiana and Freeport and Corpus Christi plants in Texas.
