The 162,500m³ BW Brussels LNG tanker berthed at Texas' 17mn t/yr Corpus Christi liquefaction facility earlier today, likely to load a cargo, after tropical storm Harold closed the port yesterday.
The storm made landfall on Texas' Gulf coast yesterday, before weakening to become a tropical depression and crossing into Mexico's Coahuila state. The ship channel at Corpus Christi closed early yesterday morning ahead of Harold making landfall.
The BW Brussels arrived offshore Corpus Christi earlier today, joining two other LNG carriers that may also be scheduled to load at the LNG export terminal in the coming days. No carriers were loading at Texas' other LNG export terminal — the 15mn t/yr Freeport facility. Both Texan terminals last loaded cargoes on 21 August.
Nominated feedgas supply to Corpus Christi fell sharply for today, dropping to around 1.50bn ft³ (42.5mn m³) for the day from 2.07bn ft³ for yesterday. But this was likely because of planned maintenance at the Sinton compressor station on the pipeline that feeds the liquefaction terminal — which started early today and is set to run until 17:00 local time tomorrow.
US firm New Fortress Energy's NFE Pioneer I — a jack-up rig modified for use as a gas processing unit at the firm's planned 1.4mn t/yr Altamira floating liquefaction (FLNG) facility — had been set to be moved from engineering contractor Kiewit's Corpus Christi shipyard on 21 August to a sea buoy, potentially ahead of departing for Altamira. But it remains unclear whether the unit was moved as planned, with Kiewit offering no comment and New Fortress not responding to Argus enquiries. The unit had been scheduled to arrive at Altamira today, New Fortress said earlier this month.
