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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted two more authorizations to export domestically sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that are parties to a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.

Main Pass Energy Hub (MPEH) LLC has applied to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for authorization to export domestically sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from an existing facility 16 miles off the Louisiana Coast in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Main Pass Energy Hub (MPEH) LLC has applied to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for authorization to export domestically sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from an existing facility 16 miles off the Louisiana Coast in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

A potential market for growing gas supplies from the Marcellus Shale — Eastern Canada — could be in jeopardy as resistance to U.S. sourced gas grows among Canadian producers while Canadian landowners object to pipeline plans and a pipeline flow reversal project stumbles with regulators.

Dominion Cove Point LNG LP (DCP) has filed an application with the Department of Energy (DOE) to re-export foreign-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG), saying this would give its import customers the flexibility to respond to demand and price swings in foreign markets and would maintain its near-idle terminal in a “cooled-down state” so it can continue to operate.

Dominion Cove Point LNG LP (DCP) has filed an application with the Department of Energy (DOE) to re-export foreign-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG), saying this would give its import customers the flexibility to respond to demand and price swings in foreign markets and would maintain DCP’s terminal in a “cooled-down state” so it can continue to operate.

The Lower 48 United States has inched closer to being an exporter of domestically sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG) with the granting of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) export authorizations to two different projects.

Arthur Brisbane, who acts as the “readers’ representative,” wrote an opinion piece in the Sunday Times following accusations by critics that the newspaper and reporter Ian Urbina had used “fear mongering” to criticize the industry, comparing it to a “Ponzi” scheme with a future like Enron Corp. or the dot-com bubble (see Shale Daily, June 28). Brisbane researched the methods used by the reporter and editors and followed up with his commentary.

Exports of domestically sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from facilities proposed for the Freeport LNG Terminal on Quintana Island in Texas would be but drops from the U.S. shale natural gas bucket, according to a consultant’s report.