First floating LNG terminal app OK'd

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved the nation's first long-term application to export gas from a floating LNG terminal. Delfin LNG will be able to export 1.8 billion cubic feet of gas per day (Bcf/d) from its proposed Louisiana floating offshore LNG terminal in the Gulf of Mexico. The facility, jointly owned by the India and Singapore-based Fairwood Group and the U.S.-based Peninsula group, is expected to be operational in 2020. (Source: Maritime Executive 06/02/17) Gulf Coast Note: Delfin’s LNG Deepwater Port, about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, will moor multiple floating natural gas liquefaction vessels (FLNGVs) that will liquefy and export U.S. natural gas.