A portion of the decades-old and underutilized High Island Offshore System (HIOS) in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) could live again as a component of Delfin LNG LLC’s proposed deepwater floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, which could be the nation’s first such facility.
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MARAD OKs Retirement of First LNG Deepwater Facility
In a notice published in theFederal RegisterWednesday, the Transportation Department’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced its final authorization of the decommissioning of the Gulf Gateway Energy Bridge Deepwater Port, the first deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility of its kind in the world. The Excelerate Energy LP facility is being retired just eight years after it went into service in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The U.S. Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration (MARAD) issued a request for comments in a Federal Register notice Thursday on Suez LNG’s proposed Neptune LNG project offshore Gloucester, MA. The Coast Guard intends to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the project, which is being planned about 22 miles northeast of Boston in federal waters. The deepwater port would be capable of mooring up to two 140,000 cubic meter capacity LNG carriers by means of a submerged unloading buoy system. The LNG carriers would be equipped to store, transport and vaporize LNG, and to odorize and meter natural gas, which would be delivered to the Algonquin HubLine system via an 11-mile 24-inch diameter pipeline. The notice requests public participation in the scoping process and provides information on how to participate. Public meetings will be held in Boston and Gloucester on Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, respectively. Material submitted in response to the request for comments for the scoping process must reach the docket management facility by Nov. 18. The facility’s phone number is (202) 366-9329, its fax is (202) 493-2251 and its website for electronic submissions is http://dms.dot.gov. For details contact Roddy Bachman at the U.S. Coast Guard at (202) 267-1752 or rbachman@comdt.uscg.mil.
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The Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration (MARAD) issued a Federal Register notice on Friday announcing the availability of a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) on Freeport-McMoRan Energy LLC’s proposed Main Pass Energy Hub liquefied natural gas (LNG) deepwater port license application. The port would be located in the Gulf of Mexico in Main Pass Lease Block 299 at a former sulphur mining facility about 16 miles southeast of Venice, LA, in a water depth of 210 feet. It would utilize four existing platforms, bridges and other structures and would include construction of two additional platforms to support LNG storage tanks (totaling 145,000 cubic meters) and a ship berthing area. The project also would include construction of 192 miles of 12-36 inch diameter pipelines. Main Pass Energy Hub would be developed over an existing salt formation in which storage caverns will be developed with a capacity to store 28 Bcf of natural gas. The terminal is expected to vaporize and deliver 1 Bcf/d of natural gas. Three public meetings will be held on the project on July 18, 19 and 20 in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. A copy of the DEIS is available at http://dms.dot.gov under docket number 17696.