A roundup of news and commentary from the global natural gas market
- Feed gas nominations to the Freeport LNG Development LP facility were revised down Wednesday and Gulf South Pipeline Co. LLC issued a failure to take notice, indicating the facility may have experienced another operational issue, according to Wood Mackenzie pipeline data.
- Feed gas flows to the liquefied natural gas export facility had previously topped 50% of pipeline capacity, near the highest point since former Hurricane Beryl passed through the Texas coast. The third vessel in less than a week was loading at one of Freeport’s berths Wednesday, according to Kpler data.
- New Fortress Energy Inc. updated its target for the first shipment of LNG from its Fast LNG (FLNG) terminal offshore Altamira to August.
- A vessel, thought to be carrying Mexico’s first LNG export cargo after anchoring near the FLNG unit for about a week, is likely empty, according to Kpler ship tracking data. The Energos Princess, passing south of Cuba on Wednesday, was reported as being in ballast and open for orders.
- Eni SpA is preparing to send a floating production and storage unit and a floating storage unit to the Baleine field, located offshore Côte d'Ivoire. It has targeted a startup of a second phase of development at the field by December, boosting oil output to 60,000 b/d and increasing associated gas to 70 MMcf/d.
