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Cheniere receives green light to introduce

feed gas to Sabine Pass Train 6

US GULF COAST US LNG giant Cheniere Energy has been given deliveries to the whole of the Sabine Pass ter-
the go-ahead by regulators to introduce feed gas minal have hit their highest level since May
to Train 6 at its Sabine Pass export terminal in amid booming demand overseas. Once Train 6
Louisiana. is online, Sabine Pass will have the capacity to
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commis- produce around 30mn tonnes per year (tpy) of
sion (FERC) approved Cheniere’s September 15 LNG.
request to introduce feed gas last week. The move This, together with Cheniere’s Corpus Christi
will form part of the commissioning process for export terminal in Texas, will bring the compa-
Train 6, which is being brought online earlier ny’s overall LNG production capacity to 45mn
than initially expected. tpy – three times that of its nearest US rivals.
In March, the train’s construction was esti- Cheniere is also planning to launch a new 10mn
mated to be about a year ahead of schedule. Ear- tpy expansion phase at Corpus Christi, and has
lier in September, Cheniere said it expected to previously said it could make a final investment
bring the train online in the first quarter of 2022, decision (FID) on this new phase in 2022.
instead of the first half of the year as previously Sabine Pass Train 6 is not the only new US
anticipated. Then last week, Cheniere’s chief LNG unit to be nearing start-up. Separately, Ven-
commercial officer, Anatol Feygin, was cited as ture Global LNG’s chief commercial officer Tom
saying that depending on certain variables, there Earl said last week at the Gastech event that his
was a “good chance” that Train 6 would begin company’s Calcasieu Pass LNG terminal in Lou-
production before the end of 2021. isiana was nearing completion and was due to
The introduction of feed gas is timely, as begin production in the coming months.™

ENERGY TRANSITION

Enbridge signs RNG, hydrogen deals

NORTH AMERICA CANADA’S Enbridge said this week that it had Coffee chain Starbucks and multinational
signed deals on two low-carbon infrastructure consumer goods firm Unilever are providing
partnerships, with Vanguard Renewables and food waste to Vanguard for processing into
Royal Dutch Shell, as it continues its push to RNG.
decarbonise. Meanwhile, under the other deal, Enbridge
Under the Vanguard deal, Enbridge will buy and Shell will collaborate on potential produc-
2bn cubic feet (56.6mn cubic metres) per year of tion of blue and green hydrogen – that made
renewable natural gas (RNG) from the US com- from fossil fuels with a carbon capture com-
pany. RNG is produced from gas captured from ponent and that using renewable electricity
food waste, manure or landfills and turned into respectively.
fuel for transportation or heating. The companies are also looking at develop-
Vanguard will build and operate eight anaer- ing a carbon capture and storage (CCS) hub in
obic digesters in the US at a cost of $200mn to southern Ontario, Enbridge’s senior vice-presi-
supply the RNG to Enbridge. The pipeline com- dent of strategy, renewables and new energies,
pany will then be able replicate the project across Matthew Akman, told a company forum on
the US and has said it could double the RNG it September 28.
sells within several years. It also said that compa- Few details have been provided, but this
nies buying the RNG from Enbridge would col- comes as the narrowly re-elected Canadian
lect the offsets associated with decarbonisation. government is pushing to provide incentives
Enbridge will spend $100mn on equipment for at least two major new CCS hubs by 2030
for producing pipeline-quality RNG, which it as part of its plan to cut greenhouse gas (GHG)
will then market to customers in the US. It will emissions.
become the latest company to partner with Van- Separately, Enbridge is in the news this week
guard, which has announced various collabo- after announcing that flows would begin on its
rations with North American gas companies in Line 3 replacement oil pipeline from Alberta to
recent months. Wisconsin on October 1.™

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