Freeport LNG to restart in October
The unplanned outage that took the plant offline in June highlighted the growing global importance of US LNG
Texas’ Freeport LNG export plant plans to resume partial operations in early October. The 15mn t/yr facility has been on an unplanned outage since a fire at the site on 8 June. Freeport and the federal government’s Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) have now signed a consent agreement on how to respond to the fire and resume operations safely. Once those steps have been completed, the PHMSA can approve Freeport’s restart. The agreement “includes certain corrective measures, many of which are currently underway”, the LNG producer states, adding it expects to complete those steps and necessary “repair and restoration activities... to resume initial operations in early O
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