Blue Marlin Offshore Port

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Blue Marlin Offshore Port is a proposed LNG export terminal in United States.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Blue Marlin Offshore Port	Brazoria County, Texas, United States	28.425, -93.01 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the terminal:

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Project Details

Table 2: Infrastructure details

mtpa = million tonnes per year

Name	Facility type	Status	Capacity	Total terminal capacity	Offshore	Associated infrastructure
Blue Marlin Offshore Port	export	proposed	–	–	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Blue Marlin Offshore Port	export	–	–

Financing

No financing data available.

Table 4: Project timeline

FID = Final Investment Decision, used by some developers to indicate a project will move forward

Name	Facility type	Status	Proposal year	FID year	Construction year	Operating year	Inactive year
Blue Marlin Offshore Port	export	proposed	–	–	–	2027	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Blue Marlin Offshore Port	export	proposed	Blue Marlin Offshore Port LLC [100%]	Energy Transfer LP [100.0%]	Blue Marlin Offshore Port

Background

In August 2019 Energy Transfer announced plans to build a offshore oil export terminal that would connect to its existing oil terminal in Nederland, Texas. In September 2019 Energy Transfer said it would buy smaller rival SemGroup Corp for $1.35 billion and build the new Ted Collins Oil Pipeline between the Houston Ship Channel and Nederland.

On 1 October 2020, Blue Marlin Offshore Port LLC submitted an application to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for the deepwater port.

The port was scheduled to begin construction near the end of 2021 and become operational by fall 2023.

As of May 2022, there was no evidence that construction had begun, and the application to MARAD was still pending approval.

As of April 2024, no construction had begun, but the EIA noted a start year of 2027 for the associated oil pipelines.

According to RBN Energy, the key elements of the project are:

• The construction of a new, 37-mile, 42-inch-diameter pipeline (dashed purple line) from their Nederland Terminal to the northern terminus of the existing Stingray Pipeline (yellow line) in Cameron Parish, LA.
• The conversion of Stingray — a 36-inch-diameter undersea pipeline used to transport offshore gas north to the mainland — to a southbound crude oil pipeline.
• The repurposing of parts of existing offshore production platforms located about 100 miles off the southwestern Louisiana coast into a facility to support crude oil loading.
• The installation of two catenary anchor leg moorings (CALMs) to connect the facility to the VLCCs (see Figure 2 below).

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