As site work continues on Cameron LNG’s plant expansion in Hackberry, company executives are considering even more expansion, The American Press of Lake Charles reports. Cameron LNG executives said Tuesday that they have initiated the prefiling review with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to add two more trains and a fifth full containment storage tank to the expanding facility. The proposed additions would increase the facility’s liquid natural gas production by 9.97 million metric tons per year.
If approved by FERC, Cameron LNG’s latest expansion would boost the plant’s total LNG export capacity to nearly 25 million metric tons per year.
“The expansion project will allow Cameron LNG to export additional LNG from low-cost, reliable U.S. LNG supplies to international markets,” company CEO Farhad Ahrabi says in a statement. “Locally, our economy will continue to reap the benefits in the form of new full-time jobs that will be created in support of the terminal operations.”
Cameron LNG spokeswoman Paty Ortega Mitchell says the company does not yet have estimates on the cost of the latest proposed expansion.
“It’s too early in the process to have any figures,” she says.
The expansion proposal prompted executives to file an application with the federal Department of Energy for an additional license to export LNG to all current and future free- trade agreement countries. The company was awarded its initial FTA export license for the project’s first three trains in January 2012.
The company expects to submit an application for a non-FTA export license to federal regulators in the coming months. Cameron LNG received its non-FTA license for trains one through three in September. Read the full story.
