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HOUSTON, Dec. 31, 2002 -- CMS Energy Corp.'s liquefied natural gas (LNG) unit received approval recently from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to expand its Lake Charles, La., LNG terminal, the largest operating LNG terminal in the country.
CMS Trunkline LNG Company plans to expand the facility to approximately 1.2 billion cubic feet per day of send out capacity, up from its current send out capacity of 630 million cubic feet per day. The company also plans to expand the terminal's storage capacity to 9 billion cubic feet from its current storage capacity of 6.3 billion cubic feet. This expansion is supported by a long-term contract with BG LNG Services, Inc., a subsidiary of BG Group of the United Kingdom.
"FERC's prompt action on our application to expand the LNG terminal will allow us to go forward with this important project. I'd like to thank the commission for their attention to our expansion filing," said Christopher Helms, president and chief executive officer of CMS Panhandle Companies.
CMS Panhandle Companies, which includes CMS Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, CMS Trunkline Gas Company, CMS Trunkline LNG Company and CMS Sea Robin Pipeline Company, operates more than 10,000 miles of mainline natural gas pipeline extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Midwest and Canada. These pipelines access the major natural gas supply regions of the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coasts as well as the Midcontinent and Rocky Mountains.
The pipelines have a combined peak day delivery capacity of 5.4 billion cubic feet per day, 88 billion cubic feet of underground storage facilities and 6.3 billion cubic feet of above ground liquid storage facilities.
CMS Energy is an integrated energy company, which has as its primary business operations an electric and natural gas utility, natural gas pipeline systems and independent power generation.
For more information on CMS Energy, please visit our website at: www.cmsenergy.com /
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