Freeport Fined $163K by EPA for June 2022 LNG Plant Explosion

Freeport LNG’s export terminal with three liquefaction “trains” shut down in June 2022 after an explosion and fire (see Explosion Rocks Freeport LNG Export Plant – Offline for 3 Weeks). What was initially thought to be a three-week outage lasted for ten months. The plant finally returned online in March of this year (see Freeport LNG Plant Back to Full Capacity Using 2.1 Bcf/d of NatGas). However, the plant was not been back to 100% operational status until just a few weeks ago when a second dock came back online (see Freeport LNG Second Loading Dock Gets Final FERC OK to Restart Ops). The all-knowing, all-seeing Biden EPA has brokered a shakedown of Freeport, fining the company $163,054 for the explosion and fire at the plant.

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