New Fortress Energy to complete first Fast LNG unit in Q2
U.S. company New Fortress Energy Inc said it plans on finishing building its first Fast LNG unit in May before moving the plant to offshore Altamira in Mexico in June and producing LNG there in July.
"We're less than 100 days away from our first (Fast) LNG setting sale to its home in Altamira, Mexico," New Fortress CFO Christopher Guinta told analysts on a fourth quarter earnings call.
Jefferies said the target to finish the first Fast LNG unit moved to May from March.
New Fortress has said it was developing five Fast LNG units with two expected to go to offshore Altamira, one to the offshore Lakach gas field in Mexico and two to offshore Louisiana.
Each unit can turn about 0.18 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of natural gas into about 1.4 MMtpy of LNG.
Analysts at ClearView Energy Partners LLC, an independent research firm, said over the weekend that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD), which regulates offshore LNG projects like Fast LNG, could approve the Louisiana project as soon as September.
That, however, assumes MARAD does not stop the clock on its review of the project again, ClearView said. MARAD has already stopped the clock twice - in August and November 2022.
Before MARAD stopped the clock on its review, New Fortress was hoping to start producing LNG in Louisiana as soon as March 2023.
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