Port Dolphin Energy is a wholly owned US subsidiary of the Norway based company Hoegh LNG. Port Dolphin is scheduled to start commercial operations by 2011 with a peak send-out capacity of 1.2 bcf/d. The project will consist of one or more LNG Shuttle and Regasification Vessels, two submerged turret unloading and mooring buoys to receive an average of up to 800 million cubic feet per day of natural gas; and a 42 mile offshore pipeline to bring the natural gas from the offshore terminal to Port Manatee in Tampa Bay; and a 4 mile onshore pipeline ending at an interconnection station with inter- and intrastate pipelines.