The US Calcasieu Pass liquefied natural gas export plant has begun pre-commissioning activities and moved closer to being the nation’s seventh large-scale LNG exporter by the fourth quarter of 2021.
Columbia Gulf Transmission, the natural gas pipeline along the US Gulf Coast, has received authorisation from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that will enable the supply of feed gas to the Venture Global Plaquemines LNG export plant being built on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
Venture Global, the developer of several LNG export projects in Louisiana, has filed with US regulators to enter the pre-filing process for a plant with 24 million tonnes per annum in Cameron Parish with an affiliated pipeline running from Jasper County in Texas to the facility.
Venture Global has told regulators it was making steady progress on the Calcasieu Pass LNG export plant in Louisiana, expected to come on stream in 2022 along with the TransCameron Pipeline, though recent work was hampered by the very active hurricane season on the Gulf Coast.
Venture Global has shown the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it is making steady progress with its Calcasieu Pass LNG export plant in Louisiana, expected to come on stream in 2022 along with the TransCameron Pipeline.
The US Calcasieu Pass liquefied natural gas export plant being developed in Louisiana by Venture Global has reached a construction landmark by having the roof raised on the first LNG storage tank.
Venture Global LNG of the US said it completed successful string tests at Baker Hughes in Italy of the first mixed-refrigerant compression system for the Calcasieu Pass export plant in Louisiana.
Venture Global, the US developer of three LNG export plants in Louisiana, said the European utility, Électricité de France SA (EDF), had signed a long-term supply contract.
The Plaquemines LNG export plant in Louisiana proposed for river mile-marker 55 on the west side of the Mississippi River, 30 miles south of New Orleans, has been authorized to proceed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Venture Global LNG has confirmed the closing of the project financing for its Calcasieu Pass LNG facility and associated TransCameron pipeline in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.