July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firm Kinder Morgan's ( KMI )

Elba Island liquefied natural gas export plant in

Georgia was on track to take in a small amount of natural gas on

Friday, a sign it was on track to exit a two-day maintenance

outage, data from LSEG showed.

Data from the financial firm said the amount of gas flowing

to Elba was less than 0.1 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) on

Friday, up from zero on Wednesday and Thursday. That compares

with an average of 0.4 bcfd over the prior seven days.

Officials at Kinder were not immediately available for

comment on Friday. On Thursday, Kinder said the drop in gas

flows was due to planned maintenance.

Elba is capable of turning about 0.4 bcfd of gas into LNG.

All of the LNG from Elba goes to British multinational oil

and gas firm Shell under a long-term contract.

One billion cubic feet of gas is enough to supply about 5

million U.S. homes for a day.