{"id":31002,"date":"2022-08-04T00:59:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/us-regulator-to-allow-freeport-lng-to-resume-partial-operations-in-october\/31002\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T00:59:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:59:22","slug":"us-regulator-to-allow-freeport-lng-to-resume-partial-operations-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/us-regulator-to-allow-freeport-lng-to-resume-partial-operations-in-october\/31002\/","title":{"rendered":"US Regulator to Allow Freeport LNG to Resume Partial Operations in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The second-largest U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter on Wednesday said it reached an agreement with a federal regulator that will allow it to resume some operations at its Quintana, Texas, plant in October.<\/p>\n<p>Freeport LNG shut the plant, which supplies about 20% of U.S. LNG exports, following an explosion and fire on June 8. Its closure helped to push up LNG prices in Europe and Asia, and dampening U.S. natural gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>The operator reached a consent agreement with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) that included corrective measures the company must take to allow it to resume partial operations, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Freeport LNG is &#8220;evaluating and advancing initiatives related to training, process safety management, operations and maintenance procedure improvements, and facility inspections,&#8221; without detailing the measures planned.<\/p>\n<p>The June explosion was caused by an over-pressurized pipeline, officials have said. Full operations at the Texas Gulf Coast facility are not slated to resume until the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The initial restart will include three liquefaction trains, two LNG storage tanks and one LNG loading dock. The restart will enable the plant to deliver roughly 2 billion cubic feet (BCF) per day of LNG, enough for existing long-term customer agreements, the company said<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reuters &#8211; Reporting by Liz Hampton in Denver; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second-largest U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter on Wednesday said it reached an agreement with a federal regulator that will allow it to resume some operations at its Quintana, Texas, plant in October. Freeport LNG shut the plant, which supplies about 20% of U.S. LNG exports, following an explosion and fire on June 8. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/31003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}