The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has voted to issue a series of air permits to NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG project in Brownsville, South Texas (United States). The next awaited milestone is the review of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which issued a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the facility in October 2018.
The Rio Grande LNG is planned to have a 27 Mt/year (36.5 bcm/year) production capacity over three LNG trains and will be fed by the 4.5 bcf/d (127 mcm/d or 46.3 bcm/year) Rio Bravo pipeline that will span from the Agua Dulce area to the Brownsville export terminal.
The final EIS is expected for April 2019, the federal authorisation decision for July 2019 and the project's final investment decision (FIS) is slated for the third quarter of 2019. The project is estimated requiring an investment up to US$20bn.