Dominion关闭马里兰湾LNG出口设施进行维护

中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社9月25日报道，Dominion能源公司周一表示，该公司在马里兰湾点LNG出口终端开始了为期三周的维修停运。

Dominion宣布了这一声明，部分原因是它在工厂里燃烧了一些气体，作为减压设备正常过程的一部分，这暂时造成了强烈的、无害的气味，通常与天然气有关，有助于泄漏检测和修复。

根据汤森路透的数据，该工厂于9月21日停止从管道中向工厂输送天然气。

Dominion花费了大约 40亿美元，将 LNG 出口终端添加到现有的 LNG 进口终端，这是继Cheniere能源公司在路易斯安那州的Sabine Pass终端后，第二家大型LNG 出口终端进入该州。

预计到 2019年底，美国的LNG出口产能将从目前的38亿立方英尺上升至每日83亿立方英尺，到2020年上升至每日96亿立方英尺。

詹晓晶摘自路透社

原文如下：

Dominion shuts Maryland Cove Point LNG export facility for maintenance

Dominion Energy Inc said on Monday it started a scheduled three-week maintenance outage at the Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Maryland over the weekend:

Dominion made the announcement in part because it flared some gas at the plant as part of the normal process of depressurizing equipment, which temporarily caused a strong, harmless odor usually associated with natural gas that has been odorized to aid in leak detection and repair.

The plant stopped pulling gas into the plant from pipelines on Sept. 21, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Dominion spent about $4 billion to add the LNG export terminal to an existing LNG import terminal. It was the second of two big LNG export terminal to enter service in the Lower 48 U.S. states after Cheniere Energy Inc’s Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana.

U.S. LNG export capacity is expected to rise to 8.3 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) by the end of 2019 and 9.6 bcfd in 2020 from 3.8 bcfd in service now.