US regulators have issued a positive final environmental impact statement for the planned small-scale liquefaction plant planned for Jacksonville in Florida by Eagle LNG Partners to supply customers in the US and the Caribbean.
Crowley Maritime Corp., the US shipping line, has taken delivery of the “Taino”, the second of two of the world’s first combination container and roll-on-roll-off ships powered by liquefied natural gas and to be refueled at the Eagle LNG shoreside bunkering depot at Jacksonville port in Florida for service on the Puerto Rico trade route.
Crowley Maritime Corp. has taken delivery of the first of two container and roll-on-roll-off ships powered by liquefied natural gas from US shipbuilder VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula in Mississippi.
Crowley Maritime Corp., the Florida-based shipping company for the Caribbean, said its fuels unit had acquired 40 additional cryogenic ISO tank containers to meet growing regional demand for US-sourced liquefied natural gas.
Pivotal LNG, the US clean fuel supplier, has made its first delivery of liquefied natural gas to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) after earning the contract award to serve NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville in Alabama.
The US Coast Guard has approved the St Johns River in Florida as suitable for liquefied natural gas marine container traffic from the Jacksonville export terminal proposed by Eagle LNG Partners.
Aug 22 (LNGJ) - Jax LNG, the port bunkering project in Jacksonville in Florida, has received a Letter of Acceptance (LOA) for the facility from the United States Coast Guard and approval to conduct ship-to-ship LNG fuel operations with the LNG barge “Clean Jacksonville”. The expectation is that ship-to-ship LNG bunkering will start in early 2018. Jax LNG already supplies fuel for the LNG-fueled container ships of US shipping line TOTE Maritime. The fuel is supplied by Pivotal LNG who along with Southern Company Gas operates a network of LNG production facilities with the capacity to produce over 554,000 gallons per day and the ability to store more than 96 million gallons.
Eagle LNG Partners has filed an application to export liquefied natural gas from a second production and storage facility currently under construction at a site in West Jacksonville in Florida.
The Sabal Trail Pipeline in Florida received Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorization to begin partial operations amid rising natural gas demand from power plants rather than for LNG - as the only current needs are for small-scale liquefaction and storage plants for bunkering near the port of Jacksonville.
Eagle LNG Partners and Crowley Maritime Corp. have received a delivery of two large liquefied natural gas storage tanks built in Europe for the first US East Coast LNG bunkering station being constructed at the Talleyrand Marine Terminal in the Port of Jacksonville.