• 23 May 2016

Eagle LNG based in Houston, TX  has begun the construction process for a natural gas liquefaction plant in West Jacksonville, Florida which is slated to be operational and producing high-quality liquefied natural gas (LNG) by early 2017. The facility will supply LNG to Crowley Puerto Rico Services, Inc. (Crowley), to be used in their new LNG-powered commitment class ships ConRo (Container/Roll-on Roll-off) for U.S. Mainland to Puerto Rico trade.

The LNG plant features a 1,000,000-gallon storage tank, a capacity of 200,000 gallons per day (87,000 gallons per day initially) and an LNG truck loading system. The LNG plant is also designed to load LNG ISO containers for supply to nearby island markets.  LNG has become an increasingly attractive fuel choice as the marine industry after the new 2015 enforcement of the North American Emission Control Area, the International Maritime Organization’s international air pollution control program which limits sulfur emissions within 200 miles of the United States (around Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands).

In addition to this project, Eagle LNG has pre-filed with the FERC for a proposed second LNG project in Jacksonville, FL (with a processing capacity of 1.5 million gallons of LNG per day, and  on-site LNG storage of 12 million gallons) to serve domestic markets as well as small-scale international markets.