Venture Global Asks FERC to OK Some Commercial LNG Service

In early August, MDN told you about trouble brewing along the Gulf Coast between Venture Global LNG and its biggest customers: BP, Shell, Edison International (an Italian utility company), Repsol, and GALP Energia. Venture Global is building the Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in southwestern Louisiana’s Cameron Parish, less than 50 miles south of Lake Charles. We suspect Marcellus/Utica molecules flow to the facility, hence our interest. While Venture Global is still working on completing Calcasieu Pass, it has, so far, already shipped over 200 cargoes of LNG, much of that during the mega-high prices of last year when the Russia/Ukraine war was at its peak. Yet none of those cargoes have gone to the facility’s contracted customers, which have sued Venture Global (see Repsol Joins Shell, BP in Suing Venture Global for Missed LNG). Venture Global has just asked FERC for permission to commence commercial service for the facility's liquefaction blocks 7-9.

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