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Hurricane Beryl weakened after coming ashore in Texas early Monday and was downgraded to a tropical storm after it disrupted some LNG feed gas demand along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Beryl made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane between Houston and Corpus Christi, bringing with it storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rainfall. Ahead of its arrival on Sunday, Freeport LNG Development LP shut down its export facility, cutting feed gas demand there from 1.6 Bcf/d to nearly zero before Beryl made landfall about 40 miles to the northeast.
Spokesperson Heather Browne said the facility would return to service when it’s “safe to do so.” Unlike other liquefied natural gas facilities along the Gulf Coast, neither Freeport nor Sempra Infrastructure’s Cameron facility have their own power supply and instead rely on the grid. In the Houston area alone, CenterPoint Energy Inc. said Monday that power service for more than 2 million people had been impacted by the storm.
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