Import

TransCanada and ConocoPhillips have teamed up on a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal that would be located on the Atlantic Coast of Maine at a site previously used as a U.S. Navy fuel depot about 15 miles northeast of Portland.

TransCanada and ConocoPhillips have teamed up on a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal that would be located on the Atlantic Coast of Maine at a site previously used as a U.S. Navy fuel depot about 15 miles northeast of Portland.

Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has awarded a Shell affiliate a contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Altamira in the Gulf Coast state of Tamaulipas. The contract calls for Shell’s Gas del Litoral to supply 500 MMcf/d of gas from the terminal to the CFE.

Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has awarded a Shell affiliate a contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Altamira in the Gulf Coast state of Tamaulipas. The contract calls for Shell’s Gas del Litoral to supply 500 MMcf/d of gas from the terminal to the CFE.

Cheniere Energy Inc. moved a step closer to developing two new LNG import terminals at Corpus Christi, TX, and Sabine Pass, LA, signing an agreement with Bechtel Corp. for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the facilities. Bechtel will work over the next few months to develop a lump-sum turnkey estimate for the terminals, based on the front end engineering design (FEED) currently being completed.

Cheniere Energy Inc. moved a step closer to developing two new LNG import terminals at Corpus Christi, TX, and Sabine Pass, LA, signing an agreement with Bechtel Corp. for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the facilities. Bechtel will work over the next few months to develop a lump-sum turnkey estimate for the terminals, based on the front end engineering design (FEED) currently being completed.

The first and most complex of four proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in Baja California was approved Thursday by Mexico’s Comision Reguladora de Energia (CRE). Marathon Oil Corp. and its joint development partners, Grupo GGS S.A. de C.V. and Golar LNG Limited, announced that their operating company, Gas Natural Baja California, received a storage permit for the Tijuana Regional Energy Center.

Plans in the western United States for developing a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import business along the Pacific Coast of North Baja in Mexico will have to compete with an aggressive push by China to rapidly ramp-up an LNG industry, according to an Arizona-based energy attorney with worldwide oil/gas development experience.

Houston Pipe Line Co.’s (HPL) 30-inch diameter Texoma gas line ruptured last Tuesday at 11:20 p.m. within Sunoco Logistics Partners’ oil import terminal in the Nederland-Port Neches area of East Texas. There were no injuries, according to Sunoco, but the rupture and explosion sent fire into the sky and knocked out service to gas-fired power generators at Sunoco’s 3 million b/d terminal.