The US energy group NextDecade has revised the design of its proposed 27 Mt/year Rio Grande LNG project in Brownsville, Texas (United States) and decided to build five LNG trains rated 5.4 Mt/year each, instead of six 4.5 Mt/year liquefaction trains. According to the company, LNG technologies have evolved since the submission of the project to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 2015-2016 and enable to produce the same amount of LNG with only 5 trains instead of 6, while reducing CO2 emissions by over 20% and shortening the construction time for the project.
The Rio Grande LNG project received authorisation from the US Department of Energy (DoE) to export LNG to Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in September 2016 and a final environmental impact statement (EIS) from the US FERC in April 2019. Final investment decision (FID) is still pending. In May 2019, NextDecade signed two lump-sum turnkey (LSTK) contracts worth US$9,565m with Bechtel for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the first 17.6 Mt/year phase of the Rio Grande LNG project, which was expected in 2023 at the earliest.
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