Jacksonville

FERC staff has completed a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for a project designed to export up to 1 million metric tons/year (mmty) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a proposed facility in Jacksonville, FL.

FERC staff has issued a positive draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Jacksonville, FL, project, which would include siting, construction and operation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and export facility on the north bank of the St. John’s River in Duval County.

A concerted push is underway across the globe to enhance the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine transportation fuel to reduce emissions and make use of an ever-increasing supply.

Additional liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments from Florida to a pharmaceutical company in Puerto Rico were unveiled Tuesday by Pivotal LNG, which secured a multi-year contract.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday approved plans by JAX LNG LLC to operate a second waterfront liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Florida to conduct ship-to-ship bunkering operations beginning next year.

JAX LNG has the remaining engineering and procurement contracts required to begin construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) liquefaction and storage facility in Jacksonville, FL, at Dames Point near the Port of Jacksonville (see Daily GPI,Aug. 31). The facility is expected to be online during the fourth quarter of 2017. It will have a two million-gallon storage tank with capacity to produce more than 120,000 gallons of LNG per day. JAX said it will be the first small-scale coastal LNG facility in the country and will include marine distribution capabilities utilizing North America’s first LNG bunker barge, Clean Jacksonville. In 2015 the JAX LNG joint venture was formed, which brought together Pivotal LNG, a unit of Southern Company Gas; and NorthStar Midstream LLC, a midstream transportation company backed by funds that are managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP and Clean Marine Energy LLC. JAX LNG is the supplier of LNG to the world’s first LNG dual-fuel container ships, the Isla Bella and Perla del Caribe, operated by TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico (see Daily GPI,Oct. 16, 2015).

Pivotal LNG has signed a multi-year contract to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Carib Energy (USA), a unit of Crowley Maritime Corp. LNG would be transported by Crowley and delivered to Molinos de Puerto Rico, the Caribbean arm of Ardent Mills LLC, which plans to use the gas as a fuel source in its Puerto Rico operations. Pivotal plans to load LNG onto Crowley’s containers, which would be transported via truck to Crowley-owned vessels in Jacksonville, FL, and Crowley’s Puerto Rico-based logistics team then would deliver the LNG to Molinos in Puerto Rico (see Daily GPI,May 9;Aug. 19, 2014). Pivotal and Southern Company Gas (formerly AGL Resources Inc.) operate a network of LNG production facilities with the capacity to produce 540,000 gallons/day and the ability to store more than 94 million gallons. Pivotal, through its JAX LNG partnership, also is developing an LNG production facility in Jacksonville, with facility construction expected to begin soon (see Daily GPI,Jan. 6, 2015).

A unit of Atlanta-based AGL Resources Inc. and WesPac Midstream LLC have signed a long-term agreement with marine shipper TOTE Inc. to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) for two new TOTE container ships operating out of Jacksonville, FL.

A consortium involving units of General Electric Corp. (GE) and Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced Wednesday the first in a series of small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities they hope to develop will be sited in Florida.