Gulf LNG Energy to break ground

Friday, Oct 17, 2008

Gulf LNG Energy plans an official groundbreaking today at the Port of Pascagoula for its estimated $1.1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal, which it expects to have in service by September 2011.

Gov. Haley Barbour, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Oxford, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Tupelo, and U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, are among the likely guests for the event. The project has a 43-month construction schedule that began in February, said John McCutchen, the companys senior vice president and chief operations officer

Gulf LNG so far has created an access road, cleared land, placed pilings for two storage tanks with a 6.6 billion-cubic-foot capacity, and dredged about 60 acres east of the Bayou Casotte ship channel.

The terminal expected to create 50 to 60 full-time jobs will convert shipments of super-chilled liquefied natural gas into its gaseous state, and store it for delivery to consumers via pipelines.

Source: The Mississippi Press