Island

As it raised the roof on the second LNG storage tank of its proposed 1.75 Bcf/d LNG import terminal 70 miles south of Houston, TX, on Quintana Island, Freeport LNG Development LP also received final authorization from FERC on Thursday to increase the sendout capacity of the terminal to 4 Bcf/d.

AGL Resources’ Jefferson Island Storage & Hub (JISH) said it is taking bids on 1.1 million Dth of firm storage capacity that will be available starting April 1, 2007 at its 7.2 MMDth salt dome gas storage facility in Erath, LA, near the Henry Hub. The company also is testing the market for interest in a fourth storage cavern at the facility that would be in service in 2011.

AGL Resources’ Jefferson Island Storage & Hub (JISH) said it is taking bids on 1.1 million Dth of firm storage capacity that will be available starting April 1, 2007 at its 7.2 MMDth salt dome gas storage facility in Erath, LA, near the Henry Hub. The company also is testing the market for interest in a fourth storage cavern at the facility that would be in service in 2011.

FERC staff has issued a favorable environmental assessment on Phase II of the Freeport LNG project on Quintana Island south of Houston, saying that with appropriate mitigation the project — to increase LNG sendout from 1.75 Bcf/d (peak) to 2.5 Bcf/d — does not constitute a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment (CP06-361).

Gulf South made another change in the pigging schedule for its 12-inch diameter Index 131 from Lafayette to Weeks Island in South Louisiana (see Daily GPI, Jan. 23). The work, which began Jan. 18, has been extended through Friday of this week and will resume for one day next Tuesday.

While New England may have some gas delivery concerns this winter because of production shut ins in the Gulf and no growth in Sable Island production, the region may be struggling through an oversupply situation between 2008 and 2010.

Mexican President Vicente Fox said Tuesday that Russia has agreed to supply his country with liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East for up to four proposed terminals as part of a long-ranging plan to increase energy cooperation between the two countries.

Construction of a C$600 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and regasification facility on Cape Breton Island, along the Strait of Canso in Nova Scotia, is on track to begin this summer after Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI) sold an industrial site to Bear Head LNG Corp., a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Construction of a C$600 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and regasification facility on Cape Breton Island, along the Strait of Canso in Nova Scotia, is on track to begin this summer after Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI) sold an industrial site to Bear Head LNG Corp., a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.