On February 27, LNG Canada announced that it will take delivery of an LNG import cargo in early April as part of the liquefaction site’s commissioning process. LNG delivered to a commissioning LNG terminal is not uncommon and is often referred to as a “cool down cargo” which allows for the offloading of the LNG into onsite storage tanks and introduction into other equipment in order to provide the cryogenic conditions necessary to continue and complete the testing and commissioning process. Aside from numerous flaring notifications, this latest announcement appears to place a clearer timeline around the potential for start up of LNG Canada in the next few months as cool down cargoes are often one of the last steps involved in the commissioning of an LNG export terminal.
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LNG Canada’s First Cool Down Cargo to Arrive from Australia
LNG Canada's first imported cool down cargo of LNG required to keep the site on track for further commissioning is to arrive from Australia.
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LNG Canada Gas Production Update and Inching Toward First Liquefaction
Gas production for the LNG Canada partners recovered in March from wellhead freeze-offs in February and remains near the notional intake capacity for LNG Canada of 2.1 Bcf/d. Additional commissioning work continues with the first LNG export cargo still expected to take place in July.
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Thinking Out Loud - What Might Be the Timing and Scope of the Ramp Up of Gas into LNG Canada?
LNG Canada, under construction for nearly six years on Canada’s West Coast, is rapidly approaching the time when first gas will be entering the plant for testing and calibration of equipment, marking an important transformation for the Western Canadian natural gas market. This will kick off what will likely be about a yearlong testing process before officially entering commercial service in mid-2025. In today’s RBN blog, we consider daily gas flow data from the startup of similar-sized LNG plants on the U.S. Gulf Coast and develop a conjectural timeline for LNG Canada to help assess how much gas will flow to the site — and how soon — and when LNG exports might begin.
