Freeport LNG liquefaction train at Texas export plant shuts
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Nov 21 (Reuters) -One of three gas liquefactiontrains at Freeport LNG's export plant in Texas tripped offline on Wednesday, the company told state environmental regulators in a report on Thursday.
The gas processing unit known as Train3 tripped while operating due to an issue with a lube oil pump, causing an emissions event that lasted more than 11 hours from Wednesday evening into early Thursday morning, the company told regulators.
Freeport on Thursday declined to comment and didnot detail plans for the unit's restart in its report to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
The second-largest U.S. LNG export facility has been theleast reliable of all U.S. LNG plants with several outages this year.
The company has however been benefiting from its debottlenecking project in the last month and for several days in November pulled record amounts of natural gas to turn into LNG.
U.S. natural gas futures NGc1 retreated after the news, halving an 8% gain that took prices to a one-year high earlier in the day. NGA/
Before news of the filing, gas traded at 11-month highs of around $15 per mmBtu at both the Dutch Title Transfer Facility benchmark in Europe TRNLTTFMc1 and the Japan-Korea Marker JKMc1 benchmark in Asia on worries about Russian supplies and the coming of colder winter weather. NG/EU
The U.S. price gain was partly driven by a data showing twoU.S. export plants wereon track to reachgas supply records. Supplies to theseven big U.S. operating plants were ontrack to hit an 11-month high of 14.5 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) on Thursday, up from 14.1 bcfd on Wednesday.
The closure of one of Freeport's liquefactiontrains should reduce its gas flow. Each train at the 2.1-bcfd Freeport plant is capable of turning around 0.7 bcfd of gas into LNG daily.
One billion cubic feet is enough gas to supply about five million U.S. homes for a day.
Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Additional reporting by Curtis Williams in Houston; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and Andrea Ricci
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