Marathon seeks more time to build LNG import project in Alaska

A Marathon Petroleum banner handles an Andeavor indication in El Paso, Texas, U.S., October 1, 2018. REUTERS/Julio-Cesar Chavez

July 11 (Reuters) – Marathon Petroleum Corp’s Trans-Foreland Pipeline Co device needs more time to convert the Kenai liquefied purely natural fuel (LNG) export plant in Alaska into an import terminal, U.S. power regulators mentioned on Monday.

A Federal Power Regulatory Commission (FERC) see said that Trans-Foreland past week sought an extension right up until December 2025 to comprehensive the facility.

FERC approved Trans-Foreland’s request to build the plant in December 2020 and gave the enterprise until eventually December 2022 to area it into company.

Trans-Foreland explained it has yet to make a last financial commitment decision to establish the challenge due to the fact the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have worsened economic and logistical circumstances.

“Uncertainty and volatility in the world-wide LNG current market have created it challenging for Trans-Foreland to protected a suitable supply arrangement that would give the monetary certainty necessary for the task,” Trans-Foreland explained in its filing.

Trans-Foreland has mentioned the facility would import up to 4 tanker loads of LNG for every calendar year and use its boil-off fuel administration technique to produce imported gasoline to the adjacent Kenai Refinery.

The Kenai LNG export plant entered services in 1969. It has not exported LNG since 2015.

The plant was the only massive LNG export facility in North The us until finally Cheniere Electricity Inc’s Sabine Pass export terminal in Louisiana entered provider in February 2016. Virtually all of the LNG from Kenai went to Japan.

Reporting by Scott DiSavino Editing by Josie Kao

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