Sempra Energy has given a strategy report on its LNG export plans and talks with Asian buyers on project offtake after its third-quarter earnings report, while also covering California natural gas regulations and investments and its valuable Oncor utility business in Texas.
Sempra Energy, the California-based utility and developer of the Cameron LNG plant in Louisiana, said it signed accords with Japanese and French LNG buyers for volume sales from its Costa Azul facility on the Pacific Coast of Mexico that is being transformed from an import terminal to liquefaction and an export plant.
Sempra Energy, the California-based utility, said it had started the commissioning process for the first liquefaction Train at the Cameron LNG export plant in Hackberry, Louisiana.
Sempra Energy chose Franco-US engineering group TechnipFMC and US company Kiewit as the engineering, procurement, construction contractors for transforming the California utility’s LNG import terminal at Costa Azul in northern Mexico into a medium-scale export plant.
Port Arthur LNG, the US project being developed by California utility Sempra Energy and Australian LNG plant operator Woodside Petroleum, continues to make progress with their liquefaction and export facility proposed for the Sabine-Neches ship channel in Texas.