Shell Suffers Setback in Venture Global LNG Saga

Shell suffered a setback in its stated quest to hold Venture Global accountable for failure to deliver contracted volumes of LNG, when a court denied the supermajor access to commissioning documentation on Venture’s Calcasieu Pass facility. Shell and half a dozen other European energy majors had requested commissioning documents about Venture Global’s LNG facility from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the commission granted access to some of them. However, an administrative judge that the FERC appointed to handle the case…