The Cove Point LNG Terminal, the Maryland-based export facility, just shipped its first export of LNG to little fanfare of coverage. 

Thursday, March 1, something big happened without a whole lot of fanfare, news coverage, or glamour: Cove Point just exported its first shipment of liquified natural gas!

Dominion Energy, which owns and operates the liquefaction facility, issued a press release that was picked up by our local Baltimore CBS and Reuters also cut a story, but when it comes to coverage, only those who follow oil and gas and those in the maritime industries seem to know.

This is of course based on a few new searches on Cove Point, but I would have expected a bigger splash than it has so far received. I mean this shipment is from the second, still being commissioned, LNG export facility in the Lower 48. This facility will tack on the “Net Exporter” status with regard to our nation’s gas output; Cheniere’s Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana having exported its first cargo in February, 2016. It wasn’t, perhaps, one of those events commanding “pomp and circumstance,” but I do hope some Victorian-dress Dominion employee smacked a bottle of champagne against the aft of the ship. I am sure this is frowned upon these days, but that’s what my mind’s eye sees.

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http://naturalgasnow.org/cove-point-just-exported-first-shipment-lng/