According to multiple sources, feedgas (natural gas) flows to Freeport LNG (south of Houston, located on Quintana Island, Texas), the second-largest U.S. LNG exporter, dropped sharply over the weekend and remained down for the third day in a row on Monday. Freeport has the capacity to accept 2 Bcf/d (billion cubic feet per day) of
Driftwood LNG, a 27.6 million tonnes of LNG per year facility that will cost on the order of $14.5 billion to build has not made an official final investment decision (FID) to proceed with the FERC-approved project, yet. However, construction began on the project in March 2022 (see Tellurian Begins Construction of Driftwood LNG with
Driftwood LNG, a 27.6 million tonnes of LNG per year facility that will cost on the order of $16.8 billion to build, has not made an official final investment decision (FID) to proceed with the FERC-approved project. However, construction began on the project in March 2022 (see Tellurian Begins Construction of Driftwood LNG with No
Last November, after months of carping and complaining, the (at that time) three Democrats who serve as commissioners for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) flipped and voted with the two Republican commissioners to approve Commonwealth LNG's plan to erect a new LNG export plant in Cameron Parish, La. (see FERC Flips – Unanimously Approves
In April 2019 President Trump issued an Executive Order directing the Secretary of Transportation to write a new rule allowing specially constructed tanker cars for railroads (DOT-113 tank cars) to ship LNG, i.e., liquefied natural gas (see Here Come the “Bomb Trains” – Trump to Allow LNG by Rail). It took a while, but after