Sempra Energy Plans Port Arthur LNG project
Sempra Energy’s subsidiary, Port Arthur LNG, has requested that the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) initiate the pre-filing review for the company’s proposed liquefaction and export facility in Port Arthur, Texas.
The San Diego-based energy company has asked the federal government to start reviewing the plans for its proposed LNG project on a portion of the company’s existing 2,900 acres in Port Arthur.
Sempra officials are in talks with local leaders, and all permits are expected to be in by spring 2015, but no groundbreaking date has been set.
Sempra wants to build two natural gas liquefaction trains capable of producing 1.4B cf/day of LNG (10M tons/year), as well as two 160K cm storage tanks, facilities for marine vessel berthing and loading and turbine generators so the plant can make its own electricity.
Before the shale boom flooded the market with cheap, abundant supplies of natural gas, Sempra Energy planned to import the supercooled liquefied gas to its Port Arthur site, warm it back to its gaseous state and ship it out via pipeline. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission certified the company’s plans in 2006 to build the regasification facility and pipeline.
The company now is proposing to build two natural gas liquefaction trains capable of producing 1.4 billion cubic feet of liquefied gas per day, or 10 million tons per year. Plans also call for two 160,000-cubic-meter storage tanks, facilities for marine vessel berthing and loading and turbine generators so the plant can make its own electricity.
