US set to double LNG export capacity next year

Fuel Fix:
The United States will be able to export more than double the amount of liquefied natural gas by the end of next year, a new report from the Energy Information Administration shows.

LNG producers currently have the ability to export 3.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. But with at least 18 LNG production units coming expected to come into service over the next 12 months, export capacity is expected to grow to 8.9 billion cubic feet per day by the end of 2019.

At that level, the United States will be the third largest LNG exporter in the world behind Australia and Qatar.

The United States began exporting LNG from the Lower 48 states in Feb. 2016 when Houston-based Cheniere Energy shipped its first cargo from the company's Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Louisiana. Virginia-based Dominion Resources the the second company to do so after shipping its first cargo from the company's Cove Point LNG export terminal in Maryland in March.

Four companies are expected to bring at least 18 LNG production units known as trains into service over the next 12 months.

Cheniere accounts for three of them. The first train at the company's Corpus Christi LNG facility and the fifth train at its Sabine Pass facility are expected to make their first shipments by the end of this month. The second train at the company's Corpus Christi facility is expected to come into service during the second quarter of 2019.
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Other LNG export facilities are also expected to be ready in the coming year.  The US has been lining up customers in Eastern Europe and if Trump can resolve the trade dispute with China it will become a big customer.

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