Elba Island LNG Import Terminal

Summary Information

• Ownership: El Paso
• Website: http://www.elpaso.com/
• Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA
• Capacity: million tons/annum
• Status: In Operation

+++ Brief Description

• A large regasification unit that has been expanded twice
• It is connected to the Southern Natural Gas Pipeline Company
• The terminal has been converted into an export terminal, see Elba Island LNG Terminal

+++ Technical Details

• Storage capacity:
• Unloading capacity:
• Send out capacity: 1.7 billion standard cubic feet per day
• Constructor:
  • **CB&I:** EPC contractor for expansion projects
• Licensor:

+++ Ongoing Projects/Project Status

• The facility is to be converted into a Liquifaction terminal
• See [[[Elba Island LNG Export Terminal Project]]]

+++ Suppliers / Customers

• Suppliers: The terminal is supplied mainly from Trinidad & Tobago and Egypt
• Customers:

+++ History

• 1978 - Terminal is commissioned
• 2001 - The terminal was re-commissioned after a lengthy period of mothball
• 2003 - CB&I Wins EPC Contract For Expansion the Terminal
• 2006 - Completion of first expansion project
• 2007 - CB&I Wins EPC Contract For further Expansion the Terminal
• 2010 - Pipeline interconnects completed
• 2010 - El Paso Pipeline Partners Acquires Majority Interest
• 2013 - Kinder Morgan announces a JV with Shell to convert the site into an export terminal

+++ Other Information

Links

1. EIA Natural Gas Pipeline Projects
2. Elba Expansion Project, El Paso
3. FERC Information
4. CB&I Wins EPC Contract For Expansion Of U.S. LNG Terminal
5. CB&I Awarded Contract for LNG Expansion Project
6. El Paso Pipeline Partners Acquires Majority Interests in Elba Island LNG Terminal and Elba Express Pipeline
7. Shell and Kinder Morgan announce plans to export LNG from the United States