Sabine Pass

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight U.S. natural gas futures increased for a seventh day Tuesday, the longest stretch of gains in years amid oppressive heat and rolling blackouts in the Pacific Northwest. The August contract gained two cents to finish at $3.650.   When gas hits the upper $3/MMBtu range, the…

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight ClipperData: LNG vessel Hough Gannet was berthed at Sabine Pass LNG in Louisiana on Wednesday and is “the first expected loading post Hurricane Laura.” SM Eagle was the last vessel to load at the facility on Aug. 23.  U.S. feed gas deliveries jumped to 6.35…

Feed gas deliveries to Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal ramped up over the holiday weekend and were at nearly 1.5 Bcf on Tuesday, pushing U.S. export demand to levels not seen since before Hurricane Laura made landfall Aug. 27. Feed gas deliveries scheduled for delivery to all U.S. LNG export…

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight Feed gas deliveries to Sabine Pass and Cameron LNG terminals were still near zero after Hurricane Laura, dragging down prompt U.S. gas prices as restart timelines remained unclear. “The main issue at this point is the timeframe for restoring power” at the terminals, said EBW…

Four days after Hurricane Laura made landfall near Lake Charles, LA, both Cheniere Energy Inc. and Sempra Energy reported minimal damage at the Cameron and Sabine Pass LNG terminals.  Both facilities were still offline on Monday. Sempra’s Cameron LNG took a direct hit from the storm, which came ashore packing 150 mph winds and was…

Natural gas forward prices experienced yet another surge in the week before Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm packing 150 mph winds, made landfall, according to NGI’s Forward Look. Double-digit gains were the norm outside of the Northeast and California, helped in part by surging global gas prices and a pullback in production ahead of…

Federal authorities gave the green light for a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc. to place the remaining facilities of its Sabine Pass Expansion Project in Louisiana into service.

The volume of inlet gas received at the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal was up substantially during November and December, as was the number of export cargos. Meanwhile, during November the terminal saw four cargos depart for Mexico, twice as many as during the preceding nine months.