US LNG exporter Venture Global has received permission from regulators to commission liquefaction blocks five and six at the Calcasieu Pass LNG export plant in Louisiana.
The Calcasieu Pass plant in Cameron Parish in Louisiana, south of the city of Lake Charles, shipped its first cargo at the start of March 2022.
Calcasieu Pass comprises 18 small-scale modular liquefaction Trains each with 0.626 million tonnes per annum of capacity and configured in 9 blocks for total nameplate output of 11.26 MTPA.
Using modular Trains that were built in Italy and shipped to Calcasieu Pass to be installed, Venture Global was able to cut construction costs and to bring forward the start-up schedules.
After the latest FERC authorisation for blocks five and six, the project will be two-thirds complete.
Success
“Given the success of (previous) commissioning operations, Calcasieu Pass respectfully requests authorization to place Blocks 5-6 in service,” said the request from Venture Global which was granted by FERC.
In total, Venture Global has about 70 MTPA of LNG export capacity under construction or development in Louisiana.
The Arlington, Virginia-based company’s three other projects are each expected to have nameplate capacity of around 20 MTPA.
Two of the other plants are called Plaquemines and Delta LNG and are on the banks of the Mississippi River south of New Orleans.
The fourth project, called CP2 LNG, will be built on a 540-acre site in Cameron Parish, adjacent to the existing Calcasieu Pass facility.
Venture Global has host of long-term agreements with customers for its various projects.
The list includes Shell, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Italy's Edison, Portugal's Galp, Spain's Repsol, Polish Oil and Gas Company, Chinese major Sinopec, German utility EnBW and Malysia's Petronas.
