Cove Point LNG Plant Down for 3 Weeks of Maintenance

In early June MDN told you that Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG export plant is due to shut down--after being online for just a few months--for scheduled maintenance (see Cove Point LNG Shutting Down for Maintenance This Fall). The shutdown will be for "a few weeks" and occur "in autumn," according to Dominion's statement back in June. Although we can't track down an official announcement from Dominion, LNG World News is reporting the shutdown is here now, and that it will last for three weeks, beginning with this week. Does that mean all Marcellus LNG exports will stop for the next three weeks? In June, Dominion CEO Tom Farrell told Reuters: "Asked whether there would be any interruption in LNG exports from the site on the coast of the state of Maryland, Farrell said that would depend on whether gas storage tanks with capacity to hold nearly 15 billion cubic feet of the commodity were exhausted"...

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