LNG

The source, but not the cause, of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank explosion and fire in Washington state has been found, a Salt Lake City-based spokesperson for Williams’ Northwest Pipeline Co. told NGI on Friday. More definitive information is probably still 10 to 14 days away, she said.

Honolulu-based Hawaii Gas, the state’s only franchised gas distribution utility, took its first shipment of containerized liquefied natural gas (LNG) on April 2. In what are projected to be regular shipments from the mainland, Hawaii Gas will use the LNG as a backup for its synthetic natural gas (SNG) operations.

With numerous U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects creeping toward first cargo and a posse of would-be exporters on the Canadian west coast, global buyers might be looking to North America as their future cheap gas breadbasket. They probably shouldn't, said analysts at BernsteinResearch in a note last week.

Information and access to the site of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank explosion and fire in Washington state was restricted on Tuesday as company, state and federal representatives waited for an "all-clear" from facility operator Williams' Northwest Pipeline Co.

Cheniere Energy Inc.'s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC has secured its second foundation customer — Spain's Endesa Generacion SA — for its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project on the Texas coast.

FERC has been called upon once again to consider the potential upstream effects of authorizing facilities to export liquefied domestic natural gas as it weighs the environmental impacts of another terminal project. But one energy analyst thinks this appeal, like those before it, will be a non-starter, too.

An explosion and fire erupted early Monday morning at one of the two storage tanks at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facility near Plymouth, WA, along the Columbia River. The plant was immediately shut down and everything was under control within two hours of the incident, a Salt Lake City-based spokesperson for plant operator Williams Partners told NGI.

Additional North American liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects are high on Sempra Energy's list of growth projects, COO Mark Snell said Thursday at the company's annual analysts meeting in San Diego.

The White House and the European Union (EU) issued a joint statement Wednesday saying they "welcome the prospect" of liquefied natural gas exports…