Project Profile

Location: Jacksonville, state of Florida, USA
Processing capacity: of 300,000 to 900,000 gallons of LNG per day
LNG storage capacity: of 4,000,000 to 8,000,000 gallons
Area: 197 acre
Start-up Year: Q1 2019

The proposed Jacksonville LNG facility will serve domestic and international markets. Eagle LNG will receive and liquefy natural gas, temporarily store the produced LNG, and periodically load LNG onto ocean-going vessels for export to countries currently using heavy fuel oil or diesel for power generation, and for use in domestic marine fueling. Eagle LNG is seeing increased demand for LNG to serve small scale export markets while domestic demand for LNG to displace diesel and other petroleum fuels continues to develop. The project will occupy a 197 acre parcel that is zoned for industrial activity, in an area that currently hosts other bulk fuel terminals. The proposed facility will receive natural gas transported by a local utility through existing and expanded pipelines located adjacent to the Jacksonville project site. Eagle LNG will procure electric energy from Jacksonville Electric Authority.  The project will have a processing capacity of 300,000 to 900,000 gallons of LNG per day, with on-site LNG storage of 4,000,000 to 8,000,000 gallons.  Eagle LNG anticipates submission of the formal filing for the project to FERC during Q3 2015, with the construction preliminarily scheduled for Q2-Q3 of 2016, and start-up and commissioning in Q1 2019.

The initially proposed facility included three liquefaction trains with a 0.18 mtpa production capacity each, but according to the reworked plans, each train will have the capacity to produce 0.3 mtpa of LNG. It will include over 8,000,000 gallons of total storage on site in at least one, and possibly two, LNG storage tanks, a marine load-out facility and dock that could accommodate small- to mid-size LNG vessels as well as bunkering barges (for domestic ship fueling at the Port of Jacksonville), and a truck load-out facility.

In January 2017 Eagle LNG Partners filed its formal application with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking a permit to site, construct and operate natural gas liquefaction and export facilities located at a site on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. The company expects to receive the permit by the first quarter of 2018 with commercial operations to start in 2019.

Operators:

Eagle LNG (a wholly owned subsidiary of Ferus Natural Gas Fuels): Operator with 100% interest


Contractors:

CH-IV International: Front-end engineering and design (FEED) deal. A technical evaluation enabling Eagle LNG to up the production capacity from 900,000 gallons per day to 1,500,000 gallons per day of liquefied natural gas, potentially increase the storage capacity and utilize a mixed refrigerant liquefaction technology at its proposed facility located along the St. Johns River in the City of Jacksonville, Florida. (January 2016)
- To help prepare the detailed draft resource report to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). (August, 2016)