Export

FERC Tuesday issued a favorable environmental review of the U.S. portion of Sonora Pipeline LLC’s Burgos Hub Export/Import Project, which is expected to lead to development of Mexico’s first natural gas market hub, gas storage field and offshore Gulf of Mexico liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal.

Canada will have enough spare natural gas export capacity to cover for another North American natural supply emergency like the 2005 hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico, even if a proposed pipeline conversion to oil service goes ahead, the National Energy Board (NEB) says.

Canada will have enough spare natural gas export capacity to cover for another North American natural supply emergency like the 2005 hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico, even if a proposed pipeline conversion to oil service goes ahead, the National Energy Board (NEB) says.

There is no relief in sight from gas demand growth in the Alberta oil sands that is eating into supplies available for export to the United States, according to a Canadian industrial gas consumer forecast.

The Alaska Gasline Port Authority’s (AGPA) 1.2 Bcf/d All-Alaska gas pipeline proposal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal would have an economic advantage over the producer-sponsored Alaska pipeline to the Lower 48 states because AGPA’s project would be in service a full three years earlier, according to a new study by California consulting firm Econ One that was presented to the Alaska Senate Special Committee on Natural Gas Development on Aug. 24.

While no one in Canada is predicting a return to rapid natural gas production and export growth rates of the 1980s and ’90s, entrepreneurial factions of the industry refuse to accept the idea it has run out of new supply sources.

Destin reported reopening the valve on its export line at Main Pass 260 and was accepting Intraday 2 (cycle 4) nominations for Monday’s gas day. The pipeline had turned off the valve to offshore receipts upstream of Main Pass 260 at 3 p.m. Friday in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Dennis (see Daily GPI, July 11).

The future of a major Indonesia to Mexico export-import project to liquify, transport and regasify natural gas for the West Coast of North America seemed assured Tuesday with the signing by Sempra and BP affiliates of a 20-year agreement for gas from the proposed BP Tangguh LNG Project in Indonesia to supply about half of the 1 Bcf/d going into the jointly owned Sempra-Royal Dutch Shell receiving terminal at Costa Azul, Mexico. The project has the blessings of the governments of the United States, Mexico and Indonesia. Shell will be supplying the other half of the gas.

Pipeline companies have scores of projects on the drawing board to export gas from the prolific Rocky Mountains region, but they are awaiting firm producer and customer commitments before going ahead with them, according to pipe executives.