Freeport LNG took three weeks to return to full production after Hurricane Beryl in 2024

In July 2024, Hurricane Beryl made landfall south of Houston, causing widespread power outages over the entire Houston metro area down to Freeport and Victoria. At landfall, Beryl was a Category 1 hurricane, far short of its destructive Category 4-5 peak as it decimated the islands of the Eastern Caribbean. However, Beryl’s impact not only highlighted shortcomings about the resilience of the electrical distribution grid of the Texas coast and Houston, but it also led to the Freeport LNG plant being shut down for a period of time. This wasn’t the first time a hurricane caused U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) LNG facilities to be shut down. In August 2020, Hurricane Laura made landfall in Cameron, Louisiana.

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