NO. 1: Hurricane Francine had little impact on U.S. LNG export facilities when it made landfall Wednesday as a Category 2 storm in a remote part of Louisiana.
The system was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved inland and quickly weakened. It was downgraded further Thursday and Friday, but continued to threaten portions of the Tennessee Valley and the Southeast. The storm’s path shifted eastward earlier in the week, sparing liquefied natural gas export facilities clustered along a coastal corridor between Texas and Louisiana.
More than 125,000 customers in Louisiana were still without power Friday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. The storm tracked a path near Plaquemines LNG, where about 355 customers were still without power. It was unclear, however, if startup operations were hindered at the facility. Venture Global LNG Inc. had not commented about its operations in the state after the storm formed earlier in the week.
