The natural gas shipment had been expected to depart from the Houston-based company’s Sabine Pass plant in southwest Louisiana later this month. Cheniere said the shipment had been postponed until late February or March, citing “instrumentation issues“ uncovered during the final phases of the commissioning of the first of its five so-called trains, or refrigeration units. The instrumentation issues involved problems with wiring that prevented Cheniere from obtaining accurate readings on the internal temperature of refrigeration equipment, said one person familiar with the matter. Sabine Pass is one of two liquefied-natural-gas facilities Cheniere is building to export super-chilled natural gas by ship. It is the first of dozens of planned projects in the U.S. and Canada designed to tap into cheap supplies of North American shale gas. The delay comes as global prices for LNG have plummeted because of weaker demand from Asia, which makes up 70% of the […]