Export

TransCanada Corp. announced Tuesday the 13th consent agreement with native communities along its proposed 900-kilometer (540-mile) Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) delivery route for shale production across British Columbia.

ConocoPhillips has put a “for sale” sign on its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Kenai, AK. For 47 years, the plant was the only LNG export facility in North America; it is one of the longest-operating LNG plants in the world.

An Oct. 31 article titled “Qatar Petroleum Announces New Global LNG Marketing Arm” (see Daily GPI, Oct. 31) incorrectly stated the ownership shares in the proposed Golden Pass LNG export project. Qatar Petroleum International owns a 70% interest in the export project, with ExxonMobil Corp. owning a 30% interest. The percentages provided in the original article apply to the existing Golden Pass LNG terminal but not the export project. NGI regrets the error.

The fiscal case for exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Nova Scotia to Europe continues to decline, as sponsors eye world oversupply.

A second boost in three weeks — an extended export license — has been given to the Asian entry in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) development lineup on British Columbia’s Pacific Coast.

The long stalled — and final — proposed U.S. West Coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project was little more than an afterthought at a regional gas conference in Denver Tuesday, where a panel of experts gave their views on the shifting supply-demand balance, which is bolstered by more takeaway capacity to Mexico and via newly opened terminals on the Gulf Coast.

North American liquefied natural gas (LNG) export developers are taking the long-term view, setting aside the pessimism that has characterized the outlook for exporting gas since the collapse of oil prices in 2014.

A quartet of U.S. senators has written U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz expressing concern over “an alarming rate” of approvals of applications to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). The Center for Liquefied Natural Gas (CLNG) said the concerns raised have been addressed before.

The United States has been producing and exporting more ethane by pipeline and, beginning earlier this year, by tanker from the East and Gulf coasts. Jim Teague, CEO of Enterprise Products Partners LP’s general partner, is bullish on continued export growth as ethane is a key building block for the plastics that make the “lifestyle products” the rest of the world wants.