Golden Pass LNG to load its first export cargo in Texas amid record feedgas consumption
According to a trading resource and LSEG ship tracking data, the HL Sea Eagle LNG tanker is expected to arrive at Golden Pass Export Terminal in Texas on the 20th of April to load the first cargo for export from the plant.
LSEG data shows that the vessel chartered by Exxon Mobil is currently sailing from Greece, and will reach?the U.S. Gulf Coast within 18 days.
Once fully operational, Golden Pass, a joint venture between QatarEnergy & Exxon Mobil will be the largest U.S. export plant for LNG with a?total?capacity of more than 18,000,000 metric tons annually.
The project is the latest U.S. facility to start production, having started late last month. Its first liquefaction trains should produce around 6 million tonnes of LNG per year when fully utilised.
Golden Pass on Friday drew an average of 434 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to be converted to LNG. This is up by 25% from the 298 million cubic foot per?day it received on Wednesday.
Golden 'Pass and Exxon did not respond immediately to requests for comments.
The first cargo or final destination of the project was not immediately known.
QatarEnergy will supply some LNG cargoes in Italy to help meet the contracted volumes.
On Wednesday, ?U.S. Federal regulators granted Golden Pass permission for its commissioning cargoes to be exported. Reporting by Curtis Williams and Marwa Rashed in Houston; Editing and production by Nathan Crooks, Ni Williams and Nathan Crooks
(source: Reuters)
