Brownsville

Texas LNG Brownsville LLC has been granted free trade agreement (FTA) export authorization for its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal to be sited at the Port of Brownsville, TX.

FERC staff Thursday announced environmental reviews of several natural gas projects: Annova LNG Brownsville; Dominion Transmission Inc.’s Leidy South Expansion; Trans-Pecos Pipeline LLC’s Presidio, TX, Border Crossing; Texas LNG Brownsville LLC; and the Rio Grande LNG project.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) developer NextDecade has an option on land it’s considering for a terminal site in Galveston, TX. The project is seen as a potential complement to a terminal the company is planning to construct in Brownsville, TX.

The Gulf Coast from Brownsville, TX, to Spring Hill, FL, hasbeen hit by 34 intense hurricanes this century, and there’s a highprobability one could make an unwelcome visit in 1998. In his firstlook at hurricane landfall probabilities, esteemed hurricaneforecaster William Gray of Colorado State University said the GulfCoast region is 14% more likely to suffer through an intensehurricane (category 3, 4, or 5) and 16% more likely to be hit by alower level cyclone this year than the average landfall probabilityover the past 98 years.