LNG Milestone at Hand

When the tanker Excelsior starts unloading its cargo 116 miles off Louisiana today, it will mark the opening of the nation’s first liquefied natural gas terminal in 20 years.

The terminal is little more than a high-tech submersible buoy and miles of connecting pipeline, but the imaginative twists taken by the operator, Houston’s Excelerate Energy, are providing another way for the United States to satisfy its growing appetite for the fuel.