Project Profile
Location: Calcasieu Ship Channel in Cameron Parish, Southwest Louisiana, USA
Capacity: 500,000 gallon per day
Area: 175 acres
Waller Marine, through its LNG development subsidiaries, Waller Energy Holdings and Waller LNG Services, has initiated activities on its first natural gas liquefaction (LNG) facility to be constructed on a 175 acre site the company has acquired at the entrance point of the Calcasieu Ship Channel in Cameron Parish in Southwest Louisiana, USA. Using small-scale liquefaction technology, the company plans to install nominal 500,000 gallon per day LNG trains in phases as the market and demand for marine LNG fuels inevitably expands. The first trains are planned for the Waller Point™ LNG terminal in Cameron Parish and additional trains are planned for a second terminal which it is developing through its subsidiary Waller Energy Partners at a site to be secured on the Mississippi River in the first quarter of 2013. These will be the first two of the initial seven small scale LNG terminals the company plans to install at strategic locations on each US coast.
With the looming regulatory requirement for vessel’s to comply with new ECA emission control regulations when operating in the territorial waters of the United States, the company’s focus is to supply LNG to the marine fuels market. To enable the supply and distribution of LNG to and from small scale LNG terminals and for bunkering LNG as a marine fuel, Waller has been the first to conceive and design a series of small LNG vessels ranging from its 2,000 to 10,000 cubic metre capacity river transport and bunker barges and its 10,000 to 30,000 cubic metre coastwise ATB LNG vessels. Waller’s innovative concepts are patent pending before the USPTO, and Waller has recently acquired Approval in Principle from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
Operators:
Waller Marine (through Waller Energy Holdings and Waller LNG Services): Operator with 100% interest