Four days after Hurricane Laura made landfall near Lake Charles, LA, both Cheniere Energy Inc. and Sempra Energy reported minimal damage at the Cameron and Sabine Pass LNG terminals. 

Both facilities were still offline on Monday. Sempra’s Cameron LNG took a direct hit from the storm, which came ashore packing 150 mph winds and was the strongest to hit Louisiana since the 19th century. The company said Monday that an initial assessment showed “minimal flooding and no catastrophic wind damage.” Once the site is safer, Sempra said it would conduct a more thorough inspection to determine the scope of restoration efforts and when it can bring the plant back online.

The storm missed Sabine Pass LNG by about a mile, but Cheniere said the facility performed as designed to...