Energy Transfer’s Lake Charles LNG Export Co. LLC has been granted additional time to begin exports of LNG to non-free trade agreement countries from the Lake Charles LNG plant in Lake Charles, reports the Oil & Gas Journal.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright signed an amendment order granting the additional time, the U.S. Department of Energy said in a release.
Lake Charles LNG was originally configured as an LNG import terminal but is now being developed as a 16.45-million tons/year LNG export plant to be constructed on the existing brownfield regasification terminal site in Calcasieu Parish.
The proposed project includes three 5.5 million ton-per-year liquefaction trains that will utilize existing infrastructure. The existing Lake Charles LNG import and regasification terminal has about 430,000 cubic meters of above ground LNG storage capacity, two deep water docks capable of handling ships with up to 217,000 cubic meters of capacity and a deep-water turning basin. Read more.
