Terminals

Taking the view that its approved liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals awaiting construction in Louisiana and North Baja can access gas supplies literally anywhere in the world, Sempra Energy has talked with “everyone in the world that has stranded supplies and would like to look at the United States as a marketplace,” according to Don Felsinger, who heads Sempra’s global business unit.

There have been a “staggering” 30 LNG terminals proposed over the past few years representing as much as 25 Bcf/d of additional LNG capacity but most of the projects have a slim chance of being built, according to Raymond James analyst J. Marshall Adkins.

Along with a final federal U. S. environmental approval for its Louisiana site, San Diego-based Sempra Energy Monday said it received key federal and local approvals for its proposed Costa Azul liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal along the Pacific Coast of North Baja in Mexico. Construction of the Gulf and Pacific Coast projects is expected to begin next year with completion for both projects targeted in 2007.

The first and most complex of four proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in Baja California was approved Thursday by Mexico’s Comision Reguladora de Energia (CRE). Marathon Oil Corp. and its joint development partners, Grupo GGS S.A. de C.V. and Golar LNG Limited, announced that their operating company, Gas Natural Baja California, received a storage permit for the Tijuana Regional Energy Center.

The first and most complex of four proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in Baja California was approved Thursday by Mexico’s Comision Reguladora de Energia (CRE). Marathon Oil Corp. and its joint development partners, Grupo GGS S.A. de C.V. and Golar LNG Limited, announced that their operating company, Gas Natural Baja California, received a storage permit for the Tijuana Regional Energy Center.

Despite falling gas prices, declining demand and increasing production, the rush is still on to bring more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the United States. Two El Paso Corp. subsidiaries are conducting separate open seasons to determine non-binding customer interest in transportation capacity on pipelines that will transport natural gas from El Paso Global LNG’s planned terminal on Grand Bahama Island to Florida.

Despite falling gas prices, declining demand and increasing production, the rush is still on to bring more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the United States. Two El Paso Corp. subsidiaries are conducting separate open seasons to determine non-binding customer interest in transportation capacity on pipelines that will transport natural gas from El Paso Global LNG’s planned LNG terminal on Grand Bahama Island to Florida.

Williams has asked FERC for the go-ahead to build a 1,000 MDth/d interconnect between its Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Lusby, MD, and affiliate Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line.