US authorizes Eagle Maxville small-scale LNG exports

The US Department of Energy announced that it has approved a long-term application from Eagle LNG Partners Jacksonville II LLC (Eagle Maxville) to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a quantity of 0.01 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d).

Eagle Maxville is authorized to export domestically produced LNG in ISO containers loaded at the Maxville Facility located in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, to anywhere in the world not prohibited by US law or policy. Eagle Maxville intends to export to markets in the Caribbean Basin and elsewhere in the region.

As previously reported, with the tremendous increase in domestic natural gas production, the US is transitioning to become a net exporter of natural gas in 2017 and Eagle Maxville will contribute to those 2017 exports. The Department of Energy has now authorized a total of 21.35 Bcf/d of natural gas exports from existing and planned facilities in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and Maryland.

The increase in domestic natural gas production is expected to continue, with the US Energy Information Administration’s Short Term Energy Outlook projecting an average dry natural gas production rate of 74.1 Bcf/d in 2017, the second highest on record.