Freeport LNG said on Thursday it was pulling in small amounts of pipeline natural gas at its shuttered liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Texas to fuel a power plant. The company has long said it expects the plant, which shut due to a fire on June 8, to return to partial service in October. read more “Freeport LNG is currently drawing a small amount of gas off pipeline connections … to fuel a gas-turbine generator at its natural gas pretreatment facility in order to generate and export about 50 (megawatts) of power to the state’s electricity grid,” Freeport spokesperson Heather Browne said in an email. Power demand in the Texas grid hit a record high for a third day in a row on Wednesday during a brutal heat wave. Data provider Refinitiv said about 22 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of gas […]