Corpus Christi LNG, the second Cheniere Energy liquefaction and export plant to add to the Houston-based company’s volumes from the Sabine Pass facility in Louisiana, is advancing well and is almost half built.
Cheniere has just told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a project update report that the total plant and infrastructure has progressed to being 47.1 percent complete.
The Texas liquefaction plant is being built on the shore of Corpus Christi Bay, at the north end of the La Quinta Channel.
US engineering company Bechtel Inc., the world’s leading liquefaction plant builder and whose corporate headquarters are in San Francisco, has been building Sabine Pass and will construct all three Trains planned at Corpus Christi.
The Phase 1 engineering procurement and construction contract for Corpus Christi includes building two LNG Trains, each with 4.5 million tonnes per annum of capacity, two storage tanks, one complete berth and a second partial berth.
The contract for Phase 2 includes one LNG Train, one additional tank, and completion of the second berth. The total capacity will be 13.5 MTPA.
“Engineering has progressed to 99.7 percent, procurement to 64.1 percent and Bechtel’s direct hire construction was 18.5 percent,” Cheniere said.
The Texas plant's current cargo sales agreements amount to more than 9 MTPA, or two whole Trains of production.
Foundation customers include Indonesian energy company Pertamina, Australian LNG producer Woodside and the European-based utilities Endesa, Iberdrola, Gas Natural Fenosa and Electricite de France.
The first Train at Cheniere’s Sabine Pass was able to ship its first commissioning cargo in February 2016.
Each of the six Sabine Pass Trains also has a nameplate capacity of 4.5 MTPA for a total planned output at the Louisiana facility of 27 MTPA.
Currently two Trains are exporting cargoes and the third Train will enter commercial operations in early 2017.
