America’s About to Double the Shale Gas It Sends Overseas
- Cheniere cleared to send liquefied gas from a second plant
- Unit coming online at a testing time for global gas market
Rig hands thread together drilling pipe on a rig located atop the Marcellus shale rock formation in Washington Township, Pennsylvania.
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The U.S. is set to double the volume of shale natural gas it’s sending abroad.
Cheniere Energy Inc., which became the nation’s first and only exporter of shale gas in February, was cleared by U.S. regulators on Wednesday to start loading tankers with liquefied natural gas from a second plant at its landmark Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana.