The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has prepared a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Corpus Christi LNG project.
The project is proposed by Corpus Christi Liquefaction and Cheniere Corpus Christi Pipeline. All land-based facilities associated with the project are located in San Patricio County, Texas, with the marine facilities located in Nueces County, Texas.
The project would enable Cheniere to export 2.1 billion standard cubic feet per day of liquefied natural gas and import sufficient LNG volume to send out 400 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas. The proposed facilities associated with the LNG terminal include the following:
The project would also include 23 miles of new 48-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline and two compressor stations which total 53,260 horsepower. Cheniere would install additional ancillary facilities along the pipeline including six meter stations, five mainline valves, and a pig launcher and receiver.
The FERC staff concludes that approval of the proposed project, with the mitigation measures recommended in the EIS, would ensure that impacts in the project area would be avoided or minimized and would not be significant. Construction and operation of the project would result in mostly temporary and short-term environmental impacts; however, some long-term and permanent environmental impacts would occur. These conclusions are supposed by the following:
Press Release, October 9, 2014; Image: Cheniere