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       Cheniere outlines further expansion




       plans for Corpus Christi LNG




        TERMINALS         CHENIERE Energy intends to add further  construction of a 220,000 cubic metre storage
                          capacity to its Corpus Christi LNG export ter-  tank, which would be added to the three exist-
                          minal in Texas, beyond the 10mn tonne per year  ing 160,000 cubic metre storage tanks that are
                          (tpy) expansion that is currently under construc-  already in operation at Corpus Christi LNG. In
                          tion at the plant.                   the prefiling request, Cheniere also proposed
                            The company has requested that the US Fed-  increasing the loading rate at Corpus Christi’s
                          eral Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)  two berths from 12,500 cubic metres per hour
                          begin its National Environmental Policy Act  to 22,500 cubic metres per hour, which would
                          (NEPA) prefiling review for two additional  allow for simultaneous loading at both jetties. It
                          midscale trains at Corpus Christi. These would  proposed increasing the maximum single-jetty
                          follow the seven-train midscale Stage III expan-  rate to 14,000 cubic metres per hour.
                          sion on which Cheniere took a final investment   Corpus Christi LNG consists of three large-
                          decision (FID) earlier this year, adding a further  scale trains, each with a capacity of 5mn tpy, as
                          1.64mn tpy of capacity. Cheniere has described  well as the midscale expansion that is now under
                          the two additional trains, 8 and 9, as “near repli-  construction. In recent weeks the company has
                          cates” of those currently under construction for  announced new sale and purchase agreements
                          Corpus Christi Stage III.            (SPAs) that it has said are in part contingent
                            The company intends to submit a formal  on expanding Corpus Christi beyond the sev-
                          application to the FERC for trains 8 and 9 in  en-train Stage III project. It is now advancing
                          February, and, if approvals are received on time,  plans for that expansion.™
                          launch construction in August 2024. The trains
                          would then enter service in 2031.
                            Newly proposed work would also include



















































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