Satellite Heat Images Show Golden Pass LNG Train 1 Back to Work

On July 1, MDN told you Golden Pass LNG had gone dark — three cargoes out the door and then, on June 29, almost no feedgas flowing into the plant at all (see Golden Pass LNG Offline After Sending Out First 3 Cargoes). We now have an answer to what happened next, and it comes from an unusual place: a British satellite 600 kilometers overhead that takes pictures of heat. A public relations firm working for SatVu, a London-based thermal imaging company, sent MDN a news release along with three annotated image sheets. The analysis was done by AllSource Analysis, a Longmont, Colorado imagery-interpretation shop. Their conclusion: on July 9, Golden Pass LNG Train 1 was up and liquefying gas.

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