Two firms are seeking permission from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to export small-scale LNG from existing facilities, according to separate federal filings this month.
Navergy Infrastructure and Texawatt both intend to export LNG in ISO containers to locations in the Americas. Neither company has yet signed contracts with customers, but both expect to begin exports shortly after receiving the licenses. The permits would run through 2050.
Navergy, which rebranded from Pilot LNG in January, plans to source the LNG from small-scale liquefaction and peakshaving facilities for export to the Caribbean, Central America and South America. Navergy expects most of its exports will be tied to contracts that provide less than two years of supplies but wants long-term authorization for commercial flexibility.
Texawatt is in talks to provide LNG to a utility company in St Lucia in the eastern Caribbean, where power generation is primarily supplied by diesel-fueled generators with incremental supplies of solar.
Both companies would source the LNG from the 200,000 t/yr Jax LNG and 120,000 t/yr Eagle LNG terminals on Florida's Atlantic coast, as well as from peakshaving facilities that are primarily in Texas and Alabama.
