TransCanada Seeks March Start for LNG Pipe
Columbia Gulf Transmission, a unit of TransCanada, asked the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc) on February 16 for authorisation to place its Cameron Access Project in service on March 1.
The $300mn project consists of about 43 km of new pipe and one compressor station in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, and will move 800mn ft3/day of natural gas to the Sempra Energy-operated 14.95mn metric tons/yr Cameron LNG liquefaction complex currently under construction in Louisiana.
Cameron Access, said Columbia Gulf in its request to Ferc, is mechanically complete, but pipeline restoration efforts have been delayed by wet ground conditions. Restoration work is expected to be 100% complete by May.
The US Energy Information Administration said last month that it expects the three Cameron liquefaction trains all to start production in 2019, reiterating a revised forecast made the previous month by Cameron LNG's 50.2%-owner Sempra LNG & Midstream. The $10bn project is located at what was originally an LNG import terminal near Hackberry, Louisiana.