Freeport LNG resumes operations

“Freeport LNG’s liquefaction production operations have safely resumed,” a spokeswoman for Freeport LNG told LNG Pime on Monday.

The spokeswoman did not provide further details.

She previously said that the plant’s production operations were taken offline due to intermittent Centerpoint Energy power interruptions beginning early Tuesday morning last week.

The spokeswoman said on Friday that liquefaction production operations will remain offline until power transmission conditions stabilize.

According to its AIS data provided by VesselsValue, the 173,400-cbm Flex Endeavour loaded a cargo at Freeport LNG and left the facility on Sunday.

The data also shows that the 173,400-cbm British Listener was located at the LNG export facility on Monday.

Freeport LNG, led by billionaire Michael Smith, recently shipped its 800th cargo since 2019.

The facility began export operations from the first train in 2019 and the second train in January 2020.

It launched commercial operations in May 2020 for the third train at its facility.

This event also marked the full commercial operation of Freeport LNG’s $13.5 billion, three-train facility.

The facility did not ship LNG cargoes from June 2022 to February 2023 due to an incident that occurred at the facility in early June 2022.

Of the 15 mtpa of Freeport LNG’s export capacity, 13.4 mtpa has been sold to Osaka Gas, Jera, BP, TotalEnergies, and SK E&S.