Feed gas demand was disrupted at the Freeport liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Texas last week after the facility reported an outage to state regulators.

The LNG terminal east of Houston, on Quintana Island near Freeport, experienced an outage at the Train 1 liquefaction unit last week.

The outage led to a cooldown and restart of equipment and gas flaring, which took nearly 10 hours to resolve, according to documents submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

“During operation of Freeport LNG’s liquefaction plant, the facility experienced a trip of the liquefaction Train 1” after the anti-surge valve on the mixed refrigerant compressor “went wide open,” according to the report by company engineers.

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