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USA: ELS Files to Export LNG to Non-FTA Nations

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Excelerate Liquefaction Solutions (ELS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Excelerate Energy, has filed an application at the U.S. DOE to export up to 10 MTPA (approximately 1.33 Bcf/d) for a 20-year period.

ELS is seeking authorization to export LNG from the proposed Excelerate Liquefaction Project to be located in Calhoun County, Texas to any country with which the United States of America does not now, or during the term of the license requested will not, have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) requiring the national treatment for trade in natural gas; that has, or in the future develops, the capacity to import LNG; and with which trade is not prohibited by U.S. law or policy.

This application represents the second part of ELS’s two-part export authorization request. On May 25, 2012, ELS filed in DOE/FE Docket No. 12-61-LNG its application requesting long-term, multi-contract authorization to export up to 10 MTPA of domestically produced LNG for a 20-year period commencing the earlier of the date of first export or seven years from the date authorization is granted by DOE/FE.

ELS requested that such long-term authorization provide for export to any country with which the U.S. currently has, or in the future may enter into, a FTA requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas, and which has, or in the future develops, the capacity to import LNG.

ELS requested authorization to export LNG on its own behalf and also as agent for other parties who hold title to the LNG at the time of export. DOE/FE granted this authorization to ELS in Order No. 3128.

If, in addition, this application for authorization to export to non-FTA Countries is granted, the combined effect of the DOE/FE Order addressing this Application and Order No. 3128 will be to authorize ELS to export up to 10 MPTA (equivalent to approximately 1.33 Bcf/d or approximately 502 million MMBtu per year) of domestic natural gas as LNG to any country with which trade is not prohibited by U.S. law or policy.

As such, grant of this application would not increase the total amount of natural gas that ELS would be entitled to export, it would only broaden the range of countries to which such natural gas could be exported.

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