Hurricane damage: causes delays for Golden Pass LNG
Golden Pass LNG delayed
The opening of the Golden Pass liquefied natural gas terminal in the US will likely be delayed by hurricane damage, while Britain's South Hook LNG terminal now looks set to open in early 2009, an executive from ExxonMobil said on Thursday.
"There has been some damage and there is more likely than not to be a delay," ExxonMobil's president of LNG marketing Tom Cordano said of the Golden Pass project, which had been expected to be completed in mid-2009.
"The team is working very hard to assess that damage and the impact its going to have on the schedule," he said on the sidelines of a conference in Barcelona to Reuters.
The developers of the South Hook terminal in Wales previously said it should come online from late 2008 to early next year.