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Cheniere Energy has announced the ‘substantial completion’ of the Corpus Christi Liquefaction (CCL) Stage 3 project in Texas, and production and export of its 5,000th cargo of liquefied natural gas from its US Gulf Coast operations.
Bechtel Energy, the engineering, procurement and construction contractor, recently turned over control of the last train (7) to Cheniere.
The project expands Cheniere’s LNG production capacity by over 20%, to approximately 56 million tonnes per annum. Train 5 was completed in March and train 6 in June.
Jack Fusco, Cheniere’s Chairman, President and CEO, said Cheniere and Bechtel have again delivered a major LNG project “safely, on budget and ahead of schedule”.
Cheniere celebrated its 5,000th LNG cargo with the loading of the Yari LNG carrier, which departed Sabine Pass on 29 August en route to Asia.
Since the production of its first LNG cargo in 2016, Cheniere has now supplied more than 340 million tonnes of LNG to markets worldwide, and the Company’s LNG platform has grown to represent over 10% of total global LNG capacity.
Fusco hailed the role of its workforce in reaching the LNG milestone, 10 years after its first cargo.
Cheniere Energy recorded , up $1.44bn year-on-year.
