Cheniere’s Sabine plant waits on first LNG shipment, coming from Nigeria

Cheniere Energy expects to receive its first shipment of liquefied natural gas about April 12th at its new Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, La.

The terminal will take the supercooled product and regasify it at the Louisiana facility for pipeline distribution.

The Houston-based company says a Celestine River LNG vessel left Nigeria the week of March 24 en route to the Cheniere terminal.

The Sabine Pass LNG terminal, four miles inland from the Gulf on 853 acres, will be the largest regasification facility in the U.S. It’s expected to have a daily regasification capacity of 4 billion cubic feet and storage for nearly 17 billion cubic feet.

It’s one of three LNG receiving terminals Cheniere is developing.

—The Associated Press