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Venture Global LNG Inc. is working on design adjustments to its proposed Delta LNG export terminal in Louisiana, including potentially boosting capacity and adjusting its pipeline to better compete for feed gas supply, according to federal filings. In a pre-filing status update to FERC, the company said it was preparing a series of updates it…

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight Tropical Storm Delta has strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane and is charging toward the Gulf Coast. While it’s expected to weaken, the storm is forecast to make landfall just east of the Hackberry, LA-located Cameron LNG plant later this week, threatening additional disruptions. “A…

Venture Global LNG Inc. has shared plans with regulators for a third natural gas export terminal, signaling its intent to add up to 24 million metric tons per year (mmty) of capacity at a proposed site in Plaquemines Parish, LA.

Braskem is moving forward with its largest polypropylene (PP) production line in the Americas, a $675 million facility sited on the Houston Ship Channel in La Porte that would take advantage of abundant stores of Lower 48 natural gas.

No construction promises and only a pledge to watch markets for signs of need were made when Canada’s frozen northern pipeline plan Thursday won a seven-year reprieve from dying due to weak natural gas and oil prices.

One person was killed and three others injured Thursday afternoon during a cleaning operation on an oil and gas platform 12 miles off the coast of New Orleans.

Under a settlement of a pending court case, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in northwestern Colorado has agreed to reevaluate air quality impacts on 34 authorized, but not yet permitted, oil and natural gas drilling projects in the western part of the state.

Southern Natural Gas noted that as previously posted, it is in the process of abandoning its 16-inch diameter Mississippi Canyon 268 Line. As a result the West Delta 152 receipt point has been shut in and Southern is not accepting nominations there for about six days starting with Wednesday’s gas day. Since there is firm service at the point, this work constitutes a force majeure, the pipeline said.

Without innovations that can reduce gas demand from oilsands development in Canada or significant new supply from the Mackenzie Delta region, some analysts are predicting that Canadian gas exports to the United States could tumble by as much as 5.5 Bcf/d (63%) by 2020.