The Gulf LNG Clean Energy Project

History of the Gulf LNG Clean Energy Project

This is the second time that the Port of Pascagoula has been considered as the site for an LNG receiving terminal. In the late 1970’s, Tennessee Gas Transmission (“Tenneco”) researched every potential site on the Gulf Coast for the location of an LNG terminal to receive their LNG from Trinidad. Tenneco determined that the Port of Pascagoula was clearly the best location for such a terminal. Tenneco then secured an option from the Port of Pascagoula for virtually the same site as the one now held by Gulf LNG. Tenneco, in coordination with FERC and other governmental agencies, did all the engineering and environmental studies necessary to secure a permit for construction of the LNG receiving terminal. Before Tenneco actually commenced construction of the terminal, U.S. natural gas domestic supply increased dramatically in the Gulf of Mexico and the project was abandoned. Had the supply of natural gas not increased, the Bayou Casotte site at the Port of Pascagoula would have been the location of one of the next LNG receiving terminals to be built in the U.S.

After doing its own research, Gulf LNG, like Tenneco, has concluded that the Port of Pascagoula site is the best available location for an LNG terminal on the Gulf Coast.