Gas Flows Jump as Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG Wraps Up Louisiana Maintenance
(Reuters) — The amount of natural gas flowing to U.S. liquefied natural gas company Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass export plant in Louisiana was on track to rise to a preliminary three-week high on June 23, according to data from financial company LSEG.
Energy traders said that the expected increase in gas flows and a notice from Cheniere that the company finished work on a pipeline that provides gas to the plant on June 20 were signs the facility was exiting an estimated three-week maintenance reduction.
Gas flows to the 4.5-billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) Sabine were on track to rise to a preliminary 4.2 Bcf/d on Monday, up from an average of 3.0 Bcf/d since late May, according to the LSEG data.
One billion cubic feet is enough gas to supply about five million U.S. homes for a day.
Officials at Cheniere were not immediately available for comment.
Cheniere told customers it finished work on the 1.5-Bcf/d Creole Trail pipeline, which supplies some of the gas used at Sabine, on June 20. The company said it started the most recent work on the pipeline around May 31.
With feedgas to Sabine on track to rise, gas flows to all eight of the big U.S. LNG export plants, including Sabine, rose to a preliminary three-week high of 15.0 Bcf/d on June 23, up from 14.2 Bcf/d on June 22 and an average of 14.1 Bcf/d so far in June, according to the LSEG data.
That compares with a total LNG feedgas average of 15.0 Bcf/d in May and a monthly record high of 16.0 Bcf/d in April.
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