Cheniere Energy Inc. plans to add 19 million tonnes/year of incremental production capacity to two LNG projects , bringing the company’s aggregate nominal production capacity to 60 million tpy by 2025. The company is developing 9 million tpy of incremental LNG production capacity through the addition of two liquefaction trains adjacent to the existing site of the Corpus Christi liquefaction (CCL) project. Expected nominal production capacity of each of these trains is 4.5 million tpy, which would increase the expected aggregate nominal production capacity to 22.5 million tpy. Cheniere initiated the regulatory process this month by filing the National Environmental Policy Act prefiling request with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Federal Transit Administration, and non-FTA approval requests with the US Department of Energy. Regulatory approvals would be expected in 2017. A final investment decision (FID) for CCL was reached last month ( OGJ Online, May 14, 2015 […]

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