US natural gas market prices mixed as Hurricane Irma approaches Florida and Gulf LNG re-starts
The US natural gas market was mixed as Hurricane Irma approached Florida where natural gas-fired power stations are crucial and as six LNG carriers waited offshore the Sabine Pass LNG export plant in Louisiana to lift cargoes following Gulf Coast shipping disruptions caused by Hurricane Harvey a week ago.
US natural gas consumption falls 10 percent in hurricane disaster week along with prices
US Gulf of Mexico offshore natural gas output rebounded almost a week after the Harvey hurricane and storms hit the Texas Gulf Coast and the Houston area, while LNG carriers waited offshore to resume regular shipments from the Sabine Pass export plant in Louisiana.
US natural gas production and oil shutdowns persist in US Gulf and Texas after hurricane
US Natural gas production and oil shutdowns are persisting in the US Gulf of Mexico as well as onshore Texas as the remnants of the tropical storm moved over East Texas and southwest Louisiana, another major downstream region.
Two LNG projects in Texas suffer storm damage while Cheniere uses Dallas for trading back-up
The Corpus Christi and Freeport LNG projects in Texas suffered water damage in Hurricane Harvey while Cheniere Energy, operator of the Sabine export plant in Louisiana, was using its Dallas office for natural gas and LNG trading back-up as companies based in the Houston area expect the operational difficulties to last into next week and beyond.
US export plant at Sabine Pass is spared by hurricane but Corpus Christi plant site damaged
Hurricane Harvey missed the only operating US export plant at Sabine Pass on the US Gulf Coast, owned by Cheniere Energy, though it caused damage to the new export facility being built by Cheniere near Corpus Christi in Texas.
US LNG exports flat this week as Gulf Coast production shut-ins start for Hurricane Harvey
US liquefied natural gas exports were flat compared with the previous week as three vessels carrying a combined 11.0 billion cubic feet departed from the Sabine Pass LNG export plant in Louisiana, with one vessel lifting a cargo and leaving for Asia 48 hours before Hurricane Harvey approached a landfall on the central Texas Gulf Coast.
