Berkshire Hathaway's Cove Point LNG plant set to resume production after annual maintenance

Berkshire Hathaway

07/10/2026 20:38

HOUSTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - US energy firm Berkshire Hathaway Energy will likely restart its Cove Point LNG export plant in Maryland in the coming days, according to energy traders and a company notice to customers.
Berkshire Hathaway Energy shut the plant around September 19 for a planned annual maintenance outage.
The company told customers in a notice that "Cove Point has completed most of the planned maintenance at Pleasant Valley Compressor Station. Effective ... Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the Cove Point restrictions will be terminated."
Officials at the company were not immediately available for comment.
The plant can turn around 0.8 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of gas into LNG. One billion cubic feet is enough gas to supply about five million US homes for a day.
US LNG export plants typically shut for planned maintenance in the spring or autumn when global demand for gas for heating or cooling is lower than during the peak winter and summer months.
Berkshire Hathaway Energy is a unit of US multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway BRKa.N. It operates Cove Point and owns 75% of the facility. The other 25% is owned by units of Brookfield Asset Management BAM.N.

(Reporting by Curtis Williams in Houston and Scott DiSavino in New York; Editing by Nathan Crooks and Andrea Ricci )
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