Awarded

FERC last Wednesday awarded Cheniere Energy affiliates authorization to build a 2.6 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and associated pipeline facilities in Corpus Christi, TX. It also approved an amendment to Sempra’s Cameron LNG certificate to expand its berthing facilities in Louisiana to handle the next generation of larger LNG tankers.

FERC on Wednesday awarded Cheniere Energy affiliates authorization to build a 2.6 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and associated pipeline facilities in Corpus Christi, TX. It also approved an amendment to Sempra’s Cameron LNG certificate to modify its berths to handle the next generation of larger LNG tankers [CP02-378]. Sempra’s terminal is being built in Cameron Parish, LA.

A BP affiliate has awarded a $1.8 billion engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract for its Tangguh liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Indonesia to a group including KBR subsidiary PT Brown & Root Indonesia, JGC Corp. of Japan and PT Pertafenikki Engineering of Indonesia. The contract signing came a week after BP signed an agreement for the $5 billion project with the Indonesian government.

A BP affiliate has awarded a $1.8 billion engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract for its Tangguh liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Indonesia to a group including KBR subsidiary PT Brown & Root Indonesia, JGC Corp. of Japan and PT Pertafenikki Engineering of Indonesia. The contract signing came a week after BP signed an agreement for the $5 billion project with the Indonesian government.

FERC on Friday awarded Freeport LNG Development LP authorization under Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act to site, construct and operate a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and natural gas pipelines facilities on Quintana Island in Brazoria County, TX.

Responding swiftly, FERC last Tuesday awarded a certificate to Wyoming Interstate Company Ltd. (WIC) to build a lateral and compression expansion in southern Wyoming that would deliver increasing natural gas production from the Central Rocky Mountain region to existing markets.

Responding swiftly, FERC on Tuesday awarded a certificate to Wyoming Interstate Company Ltd. (WIC) to build a lateral and compression expansion in southern Wyoming that would deliver increasing natural gas production from the Central Rocky Mountain region to existing markets.

The U.S. Minerals Management Service announced Tuesday it had awarded ExxonMobil the SOAR award for excellence in offshore operational safety and environmental compliance; excellence in mineral revenues payment, reporting and compliance; and for superior partnership efforts with the federal government.

In a busy regular meeting last Wednesday, FERC awarded certificates to two Rocky Mountain gas pipeline projects and a pipeline to a proposed LNG terminal in the Bahamas (see related story). The Commission also asserted “exclusive jurisdiction” over the “siting, construction and operation” of an LNG project that Sound Energy Solutions (SES), a U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp., is planning to build in the Port of Long Beach, CA (see related story).