MISSISSIPPI PRESS
By Veto F. Roley
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
GULF LNG ENERGY CLEARED TO BREAK GROUND
Gulf LNG Energy should break ground on its proposed liquidified natural gas project within the next 30 days, said Mark McAndrews, executive director of the Pascagoula Port Authority.
The news comes after the Jackson County Board of Supervisors approved a three-year lease agreement between the Port Authority and Gulf LNG for a staging area in the Stennis Industrial Park off Industrial Boulevard. ...
The project, which will cost between $600 million and $750 million, is expected to employ 1,500 construction workers during the three-year construction phase. After the plant opens, Gulf LNG will employ about 50 full-time employees and convert and ship via pipelines about 1.3 million cubic feet of natural gas a day.
Liquefied natural gas is super-cooled natural gas reduced to a watery state. By cooling natural gas, companies make it easy to transport by ship, railcar and other means. However, before it can shipped to its final destination and used, the LNG must be warmed back to its gaseous state. The Gulf LNG plant will warm gas and put it in a pipeline.
Both McAndrews and Supervisor Manly Barton said the Gulf LNG plant did not create any more danger along Industrial Boulevard, which is home to Chevron, First Chemical, Mississippi Phosphates and other heavy industries.
"It's in a very suitable location," McAndrews said, noting that Gulf LNG, which proposed the project in 2004, has received full permitting from state and federal agencies.
Barton said the approval process undergone by the plant satisfied supervisors and Port Authority members, both of whom had to sign off on the project.
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