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A third LNG vessel, the Grace Fressia, has declared Freeport LNG as its destination with an estimated arrival sometime around Dec. 20, according to ship-tracking data from Kpler.

The Gate liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in the Netherlands plans to add another 1 billion cubic meters (Bcm) of annual regasification capacity to serve growing demand.  The expansion would boost overall capacity at the facility to 13.5 Bcm annually, or roughly 477 Bcf/year, along with recently announced expansions. The additional send-out capacity is…

Operators of the Gate Terminal in the Netherlands, a key entry point for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Northwest Europe, said ship operations shattered previous records last year as the continent took in more supply, which flooded the global market.

Southern Natural Gas said it had completed damage assessments on the 26-inch diameter line leading away from the Gate 6 supply aggregation platform offshore southeast Louisiana where a rupture occurred early Friday on one of the two companion 20-inch diameter lines (see Daily GPI, Aug. 8). It allowed flows to resume Tuesday at 12 receipt points behind the platform (see the bulletin board for list). Those points were flowing approximately 300,000 Dth/d prior to the force majeure event, Southern said, “and our plans are to schedule 150,000 Dth/d at these points effectively immediately and then ramp up to the pre-force majeure event volumes over the next [three to five] days or as conditions will allow.” Southern said it also is evaluating an interim solution that will allow additional flows from the Main Pass area. Besides encouraging shippers affected by the force majeure to fully use their storage withdrawal rights, Southern listed Petal Storage-Enterprise, Elba, Tennessee-Rose Hill, Tennessee-Toca, Tennessee-Pugh and Destin-Enterprise as alternate supply sources.

Southern Natural Gas reported experiencing an unscheduled outage Friday morning at Gate 6 offshore Louisiana. Some production was shut in as a result, but based on the best information available, Southern said it would try to keep markets whole for Friday’s gas day. Damage assessment is under way, the pipeline added.

Near-month gas futures came out of the gate relatively strong Monday and posted their daily high of $6.780 just after 1 p.m., but the contract succumbed to hard selling pressure immediately after the daily high and proceeded to drop more than 25 cents in just a few minutes of trading. September ended the day down 10.7 cents at $6.624. October was off 12.1 cents to $6.730, and December lost a quarter to end at $10.170.

Effective with Intraday 1 nominations Wednesday, Dominion rescinded the “Valley Gate” restriction on south-to-north transportation.

Trunkline shut in all receipts and deliveries between Cypress Compressor Station north of Houston and Gate Valve 32 after experiencing a rupture early Wednesday downstream of the station. No fire or injuries resulted from the break. All receipts upstream of Cypress must have nominated deliveries upstream of Cypress. Available upstream delivery points include Cokinos-San Patricio and DEFS Katy, the pipeline said. It encouraged shippers to call their downstream delivery point operators to see if they would be accepting gas from Trunkline during the outage. In a late afternoon update, Trunkline said the outage will extend through Friday’s gas day, but it would accept nominations through the shut-in segment for Saturday flow beginning Thursday. The affected section of pipe will be required to operate at a reduced operating pressure that will limit its capacity to 250 MMcf/d until further notice.

Trunkline shut in all receipts and deliveries between Cypress Compressor Station north of Houston and Gate Valve 32 after experiencing a rupture early Wednesday downstream of the station. No fire or injuries resulted from the break. All receipts upstream of Cypress must have nominated deliveries upstream of Cypress. Available upstream delivery points include Cokinos-San Patricio and DEFS Katy, the pipeline said. It encouraged shippers to call their downstream delivery point operators to see if they would be accepting gas from Trunkline during the outage. In a late afternoon update, Trunkline said the outage will extend through Friday’s gas day, but it would accept nominations through the shut-in segment for Saturday flow beginning Thursday. The affected section of pipe will be required to operate at a reduced operating pressure that will limit its capacity to 250 MMcf/d until further notice.