start cooling some pipes , through Monday.
That is a fraction of what it can pull in when operating at full power. Freeport can turn about 2.1 billion cubic feet of gas into LNG each day, which is about 2% of total U.S. daily gas production.
Freeport, the second-biggest U.S. LNG export plant, shut
after a fire in June 2022.
Many analysts have said that they do not expect the plant to return to full power until mid March or later. A couple of Freeport's customers - Japan's
JERA and
Osaka Gas - have said that they do not expect to get LNG from the plant until after March.
Freeport has told Texas regulators that it would
start sending gas to one of three liquefaction trains, which turn gas into LNG.
The plant, however, is waiting for permission from federal regulators to
start loading LNG on ships to free up space in its storage tanks.
Federal regulators will hold a public meeting on
Freeport on Saturday to provide members of the community and
other interested parties an opportunity to voice concerns about
Freeport's restart plans and to receive an update on what is
happening at the plant.
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Jason Neely and Mark
Porter)
