US energy group Cheniere Energy has announced that it was developing two new LNG liquefaction and export terminal projects in Louisiana (United States). The Live Oak LNG project and Louisiana LNG project will be developed in partnership with Parallax on the Calcasieu Ship Channel and on the Mississippi River, respectively. Both projects will consist of two trains of 2.5 Mt/year each and the two LNG plants will have a combined capacity of 10 Mt/year. The facilities will be engineered by Bechtel. Construction could start as early as 2017 and the terminals could be commissioned as early as 2021.
In addition, Cheniere will develop two additional trains (4.5 Mt/year each) at its Corpus Christi LNG terminal in Texas, where three liquefaction trains (13.5 Mt/year) are already under construction and are expected in late 2018 - early 2019. The new trains will raise the capacity of the Corpus Christi liquefaction project to 22.5 Mt/year. The group initiated the regulatory process in June 2015 by filing the National Environmental Policy Act pre-filing request with the FERC and the FTA and non-FTA approval requests with the DOE. Regulatory approvals are expected in 2017 and the liquefaction trains could be commissioned in 2025.
Cheniere is already developing the Sabine Pass liquefaction project in Louisiana, consisting of up to six liquefaction trains of 4.5 Mt/year each (27 Mt/year), which should be progressively commissioned between 2015 and 2021. The newly announced projects will bring Cheniere's liquefaction capacity to nearly 60 Mt/year in 2025.
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