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NextDecade Signs EPC Contracts with Bechtel for Rio Grande LNG Project

NextDecade Corporation (NextDecade) announced that it has signed two contracts with Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals (Bechtel) for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of NextDecade’s proposed Rio Grande LNG export project in Brownsville, Texas. According to the press release, the “fully wrapped lump-sum turnkey (“LSTK”) EPC contracts include cost, schedule, and...

Cameron LNG Requests 15-Month Extension to Complete and Place Terminal Into Service

Cameron LNG has filed a letter with FERC requesting a 15-month extension, to September 19, 2020, to complete and place its liquefaction and LNG export terminal at Hackberry, La., into service. The letter states that Cameron LNG is currently in the final commissioning phase of Train 1 and is completing construction of Trains 2 and 3. On May 20, 2019, FERC authorized Cameron LNG to...

Saudi Aramco Signs HOA to Purchase LNG and 25% of Sempra’s Port Arthur LNG Project

Today, Sempra Energy and Saudi Aramco announced that their respective subsidiaries, Sempra LNG and Aramco Services Company, have signed a heads of agreement (HOA) that anticipates the negotiation and finalization of a definitive 20-year LNG sale-and-purchase agreement for 5 million tonnes per annum of LNG offtake from Phase 1 of the Port Arthur LNG export project under development in...

FERC Approves Freeport LNG Train 4 Expansion

FERC has issued an order authorizing construction and operation of liquefaction Train 4 at Freeport LNG’s existing import terminal near the city of Freeport, in Brazoria County, Texas. Train 4 will be able to produce an additional 5.1 million metric tons per annum of LNG (approximately 0.74 Bcf/day) for export. FERC Commissioner Richard Glick issued a dissenting statement criticizing...

Cameron LNG Begins Production

On May 14, 2019, Cameron LNG announced that Train 1 at its Hackberry, La., liquefaction-export facility has started producing LNG.  The Cameron LNG liquefaction-export project includes three liquefaction trains which are projected to export 12 million tonnes per annum of LNG, or approximately 1.7 Bcf/day.  Cameron LNG is jointly owned by affiliates of Sempra LNG, Total, Mitsui &...

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