Sempra Energy, the California utility and owner of three North American LNG export projects, said it signed an agreement to supply Saudi Arabian energy company Saudi Aramco with LNG from its proposed Port Arthur plant in Texas as well as equity investment in the venture.
The delayed US Cameron LNG export project led by Sempra Energy has been boosted by the long-awaited introduction of feed-gas to the first liquefaction Train by engineers McDermott and Chiyoda Corp. of Japan.
Sempra Energy, the developer of two US export projects and a third in Mexico, said it received authorizations from the US Department of Energy to export US-produced pipeline natural gas to Mexico and to re-export it as LNG to countries that do not have a free-trade agreement with the US.
Sempra Energy, the California-based utility transforming the US Cameron LNG terminal and the Mexican Costa Azul facility into liquefaction and export plants, said it had decided to sell its equity interests in its South American business in Chile and Peru to focus more on North American markets.