By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Jan. 19 -- ConocoPhillips has applied to the US Coast Guard for a permit to construct an LNG regasification facility in the Gulf of Mexico 56 miles off Louisiana.
The proposed Beacon Port Clean Energy Terminal, which will have a throughput capacity of 1.5 bcfd of gas, will have two concrete gravity-based LNG storage tanks, regasification equipment, docking platforms, and other unloading and operational equipment. There also will be a separate platform adjacent to the tanks to house other related equipment, nonoperational facilities, and the crew.
The terminal will offload LNG from carriers, store and regasify the LNG, and move the gas through a system of pipelines, including 46 miles of new gas transmission pipeline and a riser platform that will connect to existing pipelines 29 miles south-southeast of Johnson's Bayou, La. Existing pipelines will bring the gas to shore.
The 4-year construction program could begin in late 2006, pending approvals. ConocoPhillips expects first LNG deliveries in 2010.
In addition to proposed projects off Alabama and in Freeport, Tex., ConocoPhillips has an active liquefaction facility in Kenai, Alas., and others in various stages of development in Australia, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, and Venezuela.