LNG Insight

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight Feed Gas to Corpus Christi LNG up week/week Thursday, going 920 MMcf from 635 MMcf. Cheniere Energy Inc. is likely trying to offset losses at Sabine Pass LNG, which was shuttered for Hurricane Laura. The company’s contracts easily allow it to redirect vessel loadings.  European…

Even before it came ashore, Hurricane Laura had crippled liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, shutting down the nation’s two largest facilities in Texas and Louisiana.  After Laura intensified Tuesday night, Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG in Louisiana began implementing a “controlled shutdown” on Wednesday, said spokesperson Anya McInnis. A “ride-out team” of essential operations personnel…

A WEC Energy Group subsidiary has received complaints from residents of Ixonia, Wisconsin, where the utility is proposing a $185 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility.  We Energies Inc. initially filed an application requesting a certificate to install two LNG peaking facilities in southeastern Wisconsin last November. The Ixonia facility, which could occupy 25 acres…

Oil and gas operators, midstreamers, petrochemical companies and export facilities along the Gulf Coast had begun evacuating personnel and curbing operations as Hurricane Laura took aim at southwest Louisiana/east Texas. Altogether, about 400,000 people in Texas had been ordered to evacuate Tuesday, with more than 325,000 people in Louisiana also ordered to move inland. The…

Wipro Ltd. said Thursday it has implemented a blockchain-based small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) trading/fulfillment platform for Uniper Global Commodities SE and its LNG-for-trucks subsidiary, Liqvis GmbH. Blockchain is a distributed ledger that can initiate and verify transactions on a network as they occur. Small-scale LNG solutions, mainly involving transport by truck, are an increasingly…

Editor’s Note: The following segment is one in a series by NGI’s LNG Insight focused on exploring how the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market works. The conversations in this series will also analyze news and the issues that matter most to the industry in North America and beyond. Pilot LNG LLC CEO Jonathan Cook…

After a year of overseas sales growth, the pioneer of propane tanker loadings on the north Pacific coast of British Columbia (BC) has doubled the volume authorized for its international traffic in the natural gas byproduct. AltaGas Ltd. has obtained a second 25-year export license for 40,000 b/d from the Canada Energy Regulator (CER). The…

For the second time this month, natural gas forward prices rallied sharply as the prospects of stronger export demand had market bulls salivating — and generally ignoring the coming span of moderate weather that stands to topple storage stocks ahead of winter. September forward prices jumped an average 21.0 cents between Aug. 13 and Aug.…

Domestic liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo cancellations may begin to decline in September as global markets improve, according to Bermuda-based shipper Flex LNG Ltd. “We do see July and August as the peak cancellation months and expect a gradual decrease in cargo cancellation and thus a recovery to some export growth in the fourth quarter,”…