LNG

July 11 (LNGJ) - The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued an order authorizing the Freeport LNG plant in Quintana Island, Texas, to increase its authorized maximum peak production level above initial nameplate capacity from 1.8 billion cubic feet per day to 2.14 Bcf/day. Each of the three Trains in the first phase of construction at Freeport will produce just over 5 million tonnes per annum of LNG and 13.4 MTPA of the more than 15 MTPA of output has been contracted under use-or-pay liquefaction tolling agreements. A fourth production Train is also planned. Construction work on the additional Train is expected to begin in 2017 and it will be operational in 2021.