Port Arthur LNG files draft resource reports with FERC

Port Arthur LNG, a Sempra LNG unit, filed a draft resource reports 1 and 10 with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 

The reports 1, a general project description, and 10, alternatives, have been filed as part of the pre-filing review process FERC authorized in March.

Port Arthur proposes to construct a 10 mtpa, 2-train liquefaction and export facility. The feed gas is to be delivered to the facility through the proposed new pipeline being developed by Port Arthur Pipeline, stands in the report.

Port Arthur LNG also intends to build three 160,000 cbm storage tanks and a marine facility for berthing of LNG vessels.

The LNG terminal site is approximately five miles south of the City of Port Arthur, Texas, and six miles to the north of the town of Sabine Pass, Texas.

The construction schedule anticipates that construction will begin in January 2017 and that the first liquefaction train will be completed and in-service in Q1 2021. Both liquefaction trains are expected to be in-service by Q3 2021.

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LNG World News Staff; Image: Sempra Energy