Tampa-based Port Dolphin Energy LLC received environmental permits to allow construction of components for its offshore liquefied natural-gas terminal.
Specially designed vessels operated by Port Dolphin's parent company, Hoegh LNG, will deliver natural gas through the terminal's pipeline when the facility is completed. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection issued the latest permit.
The project already has a long-term easement on state-owned submerged lands, a federal deep-water port license and a certificate of public necessity and convenience from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.