The $800 million plant will supercool and liquefy locally extracted Marcellus Shale gas and ship it first by truck, eventually by rail, to “customers in the U.S. as well as abroad. The plant received initial blessing from the Wyalusing Town Planning Commission last week. At a planning commission meeting, a New Fortress Energy official revealed that the plant will generate 10-15 tractor trailer trips per hour, seven days a week.
The plant, which New Fortress Energy is proposing to construct along Route 6, would produce 3.5 million gallons of LNG a day, said Brannen McElmurray, head of development for New Fortress Energy. The planning commission voted unanimously to recommend to the township supervisors that they grant the necessary permits for the plant.
Initially, only trucks would transport the LNG from the plant, but eventually, New Fortress Energy intends to ship a significant amount of the LNG produced by the plant via rail, using the Norfolk-Southern Railway line that passes through the land on which the plant would be built, McElmurray said.
The plant would help solve a problem facing the area: an insufficient number of gas pipelines to carry locally produced Marcellus natural gas to markets in other areas of the country, McElmurray said.
“You are blessed with an amazing resource, natural gas, which is abundant in this area,” he explained to those at the meeting. “You are sitting on probably one of the most prolific gas resources on the planet. But there is not enough traditional pipeline to take it to … markets. (The plant) can bring additional production on line … without the need for additional pipeline structures.”
Source: Marcellus Drilling
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