{"id":14719,"date":"2015-04-03T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/?p=14719"},"modified":"2015-04-03T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:18:20","slug":"local-national-lng-projects-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2015\/04\/03\/local-national-lng-projects-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Local, national LNG projects on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY BRENDAN GIBBONS<\/strong>
\n Times-Shamrock Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liquefied natural gas exporters are eyeing Pennsylvania natural gas, and Northeast Pennsylvania will likely get its own liquefaction facility for domestic sales.<\/p>\n

Gulf Oil Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development Jonathan Carroll spoke at a Lackawanna College event Friday, promoting liquefied natural gas, or LNG. He offered more details on the company\u2019s plan to build a liquefaction plant in Great Bend Twp.<\/p>\n

Converting natural gas to liquid form requires chilling it from roughly 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit to negative 260 degrees, reducing its volume by 600 times. The volume reduction makes LNG attractive for shipping large amounts of gas.<\/p>\n

$50 million investment<\/strong>
\nThe Gulf Oil project represents a projected $50 million investment to build a facility capable of liquefying 8 million cubic feet per day, Mr. Carroll said.<\/p>\n

Although the investment plan is not final, Gulf is operating on a seven-month permitting plan and hopes to break ground by the end of the year, Carroll said.<\/p>\n

He said Gulf has already spoken with state and county officials and submitted permit applications to the state Department of Environmental Protection, though the DEP\u2019s eFacts tracking tool shows no information for the facility.<\/p>\n

Gulf plans to use local contractors for construction and buy equipment from Pennsylvania firms, Mr. Carroll said. A minimum of six full-time employees will be necessary to run the facility, plus 20 drivers shuttling LNG to domestic customers in the Mid-Atlantic and New England.<\/p>\n

Supply is tight<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe LNG supply situation for domestic consumption is pretty tight,\u201d Mr. Carroll said. \u201cThis is a project we\u2019re really excited about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Its target customers are peak-shaving plants that store gas during periods of low demand for release into transmission or distribution lines during high-demand periods, he said. The company can also supply large industrial users or distribution networks for home use.<\/p>\n

The company is already working with a town in New Hampshire that wants natural gas but finds itself isolated from the pipeline network \u2014 a \u201cgas island,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The high-quality dry gas produced in Northeast Pennsylvania was one factor that drew the company to Great Bend, he said. The other is the local gas price.
\n\u201cHere the prices are so stable, so cheap,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Though Gulf\u2019s project could have a big local impact, other LNG terminals being built around the country for export and domestic shipments will dwarf its Great Bend facility.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Dominion Energy broke ground on its Cove Point LNG terminal in Calvert County, Maryland. Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., the top producer in the northeast Marcellus Shale region, has agreed to supply 350 million cubic feet to that facility for 20 years.<\/p>\n

Jason French, government and public affairs director for Cheniere Energy Inc., which is currently building the Sabine Pass terminal on the Texas-Louisiana border and the Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project in Texas, also visited Scranton on Friday.<\/p>\n

So did Sempra International\u2019s external affairs director JC Thomas. The company is building the Cameron LNG facility on the Louisiana Gulf Coast after opening the Energia Costa Azul terminal in Baja California in 2008.<\/p>\n

Both men promoted shipping LNG to buyers around the world to add price stability to the natural gas market and spur investment into huge projects like theirs, along with more drilling upstream.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur allies in Europe and Asia are thirsty for natural gas,\u201d French said.<\/p>\n

The price foreign buyers would pay at their Gulf Coast facility is tied to the Henry Hub gas price in Louisiana, French said. They agree to pay 115 percent of the Henry Hub price for transfer and liquefaction, working out to $2.75 to $3.50 per thousand cubic feet, not including transportation costs.<\/p>\n

Combined, Cheniere\u2019s and Sempra\u2019s proposed liquefaction facilities and terminals can demand more than 10 billion cubic feet of gas per day. That would account for a little less than one eighth of the total gas production in the continental U.S., according to U.S. Energy Information Administration numbers from January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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