This story is from September 10, 2020

US Sabine Pass LNG terminal receives first tanker since August shutdown

US Sabine Pass LNG terminal receives first tanker since August shutdown
SINGAPORE: A liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker has docked at Cheniere Energy Inc's Sabine Pass export terminal in Louisiana, preparing to load the first cargo since late August when the plant was shut for Hurricane Laura, shiptracking data showed.
LNG tanker Hoegh Gannet docked at the terminal on Sept. 9, shiptracking data from data intelligence firm Kpler, Refinitiv Eikon and ClipperData showed.
Cheniere Energy shut its Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana by Aug.
25 and restarted flows to the plant by Sept. 3.
The amount of natural gas flowing to U.S. LNG export plants soared by a record amount this week as Sabine Pass continues to ramp up, pointing to the resumption of LNG exports, analysts said.
The last loading from the terminal was on tanker SM Eagle on Aug. 23, ClipperData's director of LNG analytics Kaleem Asghar said.
Flows to Cameron LNG, another U.S. export facility, still remain at zero at the moment, Kpler analyst Rebecca Chia said. Cameron shut its plant by Aug. 27 and has not restarted flows due to current power outages.
Disruption to LNG supplies from the United States and from Australia has caused spot Asian LNG prices <LNG-AS> to rise to multi-month highs recently.
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