OGJ Transportation Report - Feb 22nd, 2023
 
 
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February 22, 2023
Freeport LNG Development LP has received US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval to resume commercial operations at its 15-million tpy plant on Quintana Island, Tex.
Williams, Tulsa, Okla., signed executive agreements with Chevron USA Inc. to support natural gas development in the Haynesville basin as well as the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
TC Energy said last week that the Dec. 7, 2022, leak from its Keystone crude oil pipeline was due to a combination of factors, including bending stress on the pipe and a weld flaw at a pipe-to-fitting girth weld completed during fabrication.
Mexico Pacific Ltd. has executed two 20-year sales agreements with ExxonMobil LNG Asia Pacific for a combined 2 million tonnes/year of LNG from Mexico Pacific’s 14.1-million tpy Saguaro Energia LNG plant in Puerto Libertad, Sonora, Mexico.
TC Energy updated cost estimates for its Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline in Western Canada, ascribing the adjustments to material cost pressures.
Summit Carbon Solutions has increased the planned diameter of many of the sections of its proposed 2,000-mile Midwest Carbon Express CO2 pipeline, raising its capacity to 18 million tonnes/year (tpy).
Deutsche ReGas GMBH & Co. KGaA’s 5.2-billion cu m/year Deutsche Ostsee LNG terminal has received its operating license and is in the final stages of commissioning.
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc., has received a draft environmental impact statement from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for its 245-MMcfd Cumberland project.
The Australian Government has proposed further changes to the country’s Domestic Gas Security Mechanism that would give it the power to curb LNG exports from east coast producers.
Inpex is studying ways to makes its 9.5-million tpy Abadi LNG liquefaction project cleaner as it continues negotiations with the Indonesian government on revisions to its plan of development, inclusive of carbon capture and storage.
DNV is launching the second phase of H2Pipe, a joint industry project aiming to develop a new code for the design, requalification, construction, and operation of offshore pipelines to transport hydrogen, either pure or blended with natural gas.
ADNOC delivered the first shipment of LNG from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to the Elbehafen floating LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel, Germany.