Elba Island (Georgia)

Elba Island is an island in the Savannah River, near the US port city of Savannah, Georgia, on the Atlantic Ocean. It functions as an import and export facility for liquefied natural gas. The island lies five miles downstream from the city of Savannah, and is part of Chatham County, Georgia.[1] Its name comes from the Mediterranean island of Elba.[2]

In the early 1970s, the US energy company Sonat built an import and storage facility for liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the island. Another large project, completed in 2020, expanded the facility to liquefy and export natural gas.[3] In that project, which cost about $2 billion, Kinder Morgan (a large US energy company) constructed ten liquefaction units.

  1. ^ "News and Articles on Elba Island". Surfwax.com. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  2. ^ Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 71. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
  3. ^ Landers, Mary (3 September 2020). "What a $2 billion expansion on Elba Island could mean for one of Chatham's biggest tax payers". Savannah Morning News. Retrieved 2 July 2021.