U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright signed an export authorization last week for a 12 percent expansion in exports at Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi liquefied natural gas (LNG) Terminal in Texas.
The authorization allows additional exports of up to 0.47 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of U.S. natural gas as LNG to non-Free Trade Agreement (non-FTA) countries. The exports will come from Trains 8 and 9 of the Corpus Christi Stage 3 Project, known as the Midscale Trains 8 & 9 Project.
Overall, the Corpus Christi LNG is now authorized to export a total of 4.45 Bcf/d. It is now the second largest LNG export project in the U.S…