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Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC (CCL) may export up to 514 Bcf/year of liquefied domestic natural gas from trains four and five of its terminal, which is under construction in San Patricio and Nueces counties, TX, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said Thursday.

Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC has made a liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with EDP Energias de Portugal S.A. (EDP).

Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC has struck a second deal to sell liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Indonesia’s state-owned PT Pertamina (Persero).

Spain’s Iberdrola SA has agreed to buy about 0.4 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the first train of the Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC export terminal being developed in Texas, Cheniere Energy Inc. said Friday.

The 195-mile Double Eagle Pipeline, designed to deliver Eagle Ford Shale condensate to Corpus Christi, TX, is in full operation, owners Magellan Midstream Partners and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners said Thursday.

Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC has struck a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with PT Pertamina (Persero) under which Pertamina has agreed to purchase about 0.8 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a liquefaction and export terminal being developed near Corpus Christi, TX. Cheniere Inc. shares hit a new high on Friday following the news.

Magellan Midstream Partners LP plans to construct a new pipeline origin point at Barnhart, TX, to accept crude oil shipments on the partnership’s Longhorn pipeline. The new point will be 75 miles east of the pipeline’s Crane, TX, origin and is expected to begin receiving crude oil in early 2015. The project is expected to cost…

Plains All American Pipeline LPandEnterprise Products Partners LPare expanding their Eagle Ford Joint Venture (JV) crude oil pipeline to 470,000 b/d of light and medium crude grades to accommodate additional volumes expected from Plains’ Cactus pipeline, which is under construction. The expansion is expected to cost $120 million and be in service in the second quarter of 2015. The Eagle Ford system, most of which is in service and expected to be completed by Sept. 30, serves the Three Rivers and Corpus Christi refineries and other markets via marine transport facilities at Corpus Christi. The Cactus Pipeline is being constructed by Plains from McCamey, TX, in the Permian Basin area to Gardendale (seeShale Daily,April 16). It will have an initial capacity of 200,000 b/d and is expected to be in service in the second quarter of 2015.

Cheap U.S. natural gas contributed to a decision by European steelmaker Voestalpine AG to site a new plant outside of Corpus Christi, TX.