LNG

Sempra Energy’s storage unit has given more details of plans to construct and operate a “high-deliverability” salt-dome natural gas storage facility in Louisiana for existing and proposed LNG export plants with interconnections to key pipelines.

The new US Administration has moved quickly on oil and gas banning orders with the upholding of a block imposed by one department in the state of Oregon on the Jordan Cove LNG export project for the West Coast as a proposed outlet for natural gas from the US Rockies and Western Canada.

Feb 28 (LNGJ) - Pembina Pipeline Corp., the Canadian energy infrastructure company developing the US Jordan Cove LNG export plant in the northwest state of Oregon, said the regulatory processes were ongoing. “The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission delayed a decision originally expected on February 13, 2020,” said the Calgary-based company in its latest earnings. “Pembina looks forward to obtaining a final decision. Pembina is focused on getting all the remaining permits required to proceed with this project,” stated the company. 

   The liquefaction plant and other facilities are planned for a 200-acre site at Coos Bay and comprise five small-scale Trains each with 1.5 million tonnes per annum of output for a total of 7.8 MTPA. The Jordan Cove venture's other facilities would include two full-containment LNG storage tanks with total capacity of 320,000 cubic metres, gas treating facilities, an export jetty and access to more than 25 billion cubic feet per day of gas supply from Western Canada and the US Rockies.

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has carried out a construction inspection of the small-scale LNG liquefaction project in Providence, Rhode Island, being built under an expansion permit by the US subsidiary of UK company, National Grid plc.