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Sabine Pass LNG output
24 Oct 2016, 3.16 pm GMT

Houston, 24 October (Argus) — The Sabine Pass LNG export terminal in Louisiana is scheduled to receive about 196mn cf (5.55mn m³) of gas today, its highest daily intake in more than a month as it ramps back up after a maintenance shutdown.

Sabine Pass received zero gas on 20 September-8 October, as well no gas as 12-13 October, after intake reached about 5mn cf each day on 9-11 October.

Flows ramped up to an average of 43mn cf/d on 20-23 October.

Today's gas flow would be the highest since 344mn cf on 18 September. Sabine Pass received an average of 1.2 Bcf/d of gas on 1-15 September before flows were reduced beginning 16 September.

Sabine Pass can get gas from two pipelines. Creole Trail was scheduled to flow about 96mn cf into the facility today, and National Gas Pipeline (NGPL) about 100mn cf/d. Since 18 September, flow from NGPL mostly had been zero, except, for about 5mn cf each day on 9-11 October.

Sabine Pass owner Cheniere Energy previously said it would shut the first two liquefaction trains at the facility for about four weeks to repair a flare that had not functioned as intended. It is unclear exactly when the shutdown started, as flows were reduced to negligible totals averaging 21mn cf/d on 18-19 September, before dropping to zero on 20 September.

Cheniere has declined to comment on when the trains would come back on line. The facility has exported two cargoes during the shutdown, as it had an equivalent of about 17 Bcf in storage tanks when the shutdown started.

Cheniere is building five liquefaction trains at the $20bn facility, each with peak capacity of 5mn t/yr, equivalent to about 694mn cf/d (19.6mn m³/d) of gas, and baseload capacity of 4.5mn t/yr. Train 1 exported its first cargo on 24 February and train 2 in August.

Cheniere has said that trains 3 and 4 would come on line six months after the prior respective train. Train 5 is scheduled to start operating in late 2019.

http://www.argusmedia.com/news/article/?id=1335922



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