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Venture Global announces offtake
agreements with ExxonMobil, Petronas
PROJECTS & US-BASED Venture Global LNG announced facility began last year and it is expected to
COMPANIES this week that it had struck separate sale and be operational in 2024. An FID has not been
purchase agreements (SPAs) with ExxonMobil announced yet, but Venture Global had said in
LNG Asia Pacific and Malaysia’s Petronas. March that it was coming “soon”. A Wood Mac-
Under the terms of two long-term deals with kenzie analyst, Ben Chu, was cited by Reuters as
ExxonMobil, the super-major will purchase saying the company had reached FID on Calca-
1mn tonnes per year of LNG from the proposed sieu Pass when it had roughly the same share of
Plaquemines LNG export terminal and another volumes contracted.
1mn tpy from the planned CP2 LNG project. No The CP2 LNG terminal is expected to begin Asian buyers
pricing terms were disclosed, but S&P Global construction adjacent to Calcasieu Pass in 2023,
reported this week, citing a Venture Global with full commercial operations targeted for are also trying
spokesperson, that each of the SPAs has a dura- mid-2026. Venture Global noted this week that
tion of 20 years. Both facilities will be located in the SPA with ExxonMobil was the second supply to lock in long-
Louisiana, where Venture Global brought its first deal for CP2.
terminal, Calcasieu Pass LNG, online earlier this It is worth noting that ExxonMobil is also term supplies to
year. partnering with QatarEnergy to construct the shield themselves
The day after it announced the SPAs with Golden Pass LNG export plant in Texas, which
ExxonMobil, Venture Global also said that it had will begin operations in 2024 and have an esti- from increased
struck a 20-year SPA with Petronas. Under that mated capacity of 18mn tpy.
deal, Petronas will buy 1mn tpy of LNG from the The latest deals come as spot prices in end- competition and
Plaquemines facility. Venture Global noted that user markets are twice as high as they were a year
with this deal, 16mn tpy of Plaquemines’ 20mn ago, leading to a surge in commercial activity future market
tpy capacity was covered by 20-year SPAs. relating to current and proposed US LNG export volatility.
Both Plaquemines and CP2 would replicate facilities. Europe is racing to wean itself off Rus-
the modular design of Calcasieu Pass, which sian gas and – as evidenced by Venture Global’s
began production just 29 months after reaching latest SPAs – Asian buyers are also trying to lock
a financial investment decision (FID). However, in long-term supplies to shield themselves from
both would be on a larger scale, with a capacity of increased competition and future market vola-
20mn tpy at each terminal, compared with 10mn tility. Under these circumstances, the prospects
tpy at Calcasieu Pass. for several planned US liquefaction projects have
Early construction on the Plaquemines improved considerably.
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