May 19 (UPI) -- U.S. officials announced Monday that Louisiana's McNeese State University will be site of the federal government's new national center for liquefied natural gas safety.
The university in Lake Charles was selected by officials to be the site of the "National Center of Excellence for Liquefied Natural Gas Safety" as a subsidiary part of the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
"The sheer volume of product supplied by the state of Louisiana is unparalleled and growing, and there is no better place to locate our Center of Excellence," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
McNeese State, the first U.S. undergraduate institution to offer a certificate program in the business of liquefied natural gas, is already the site of its own LNG Center of Excellence.
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