Freeport LNG announced that it has shipped the first LNG commissioning cargo from its first train. Approximately 150,000-CM of LNG was loaded aboard the LNG Jurojin, which departed from the facility’s terminal.
Freeport LNG announced that it has shipped the first LNG commissioning cargo from its first train. Approximately 150,000-CM of LNG was loaded aboard the LNG Jurojin, which departed from the facility’s terminal.
Market sources have reported that the commissioning cargo taken by Shell and to be headed to Jebel Ali FSRU in the UAE. A second tanker, the GasLog-owned Methane Heather Sally, remained anchored off Freeport LNG while a third tanker, Soshu Maru, is scheduled to arrive at the terminal September 18.
The primary long-term buyers of offtake from Freeport LNG Train 1 are Japanese utilities Osaka Gas and Chubu Electric, which each control 2.2 MMT/Y of capacity. Additional long-term contracts were signed with BP for 4.4 MMT/Y of offtake capacity for Train 2, and Total and Korea's SK E&S, which are splitting another 4.4 MMT/Y of offtake capacity at Train 3. The Total agreement includes obligations it inherited from its acquisition of Toshiba's US LNG business.
“Freeport’s Train 2 is advancing pre-commissioning to support an in-service date of January 2020. Train 3 is nearing completion to support an in-service date of May 2020.”
The project is also planning to develop the fourth liquefaction train which is expected to add over 5 MMT/Y of LNG production, increasing the total export capability of the facility to over 20 MMT/Y. Approximately 13.5 MMT/Y of this capacity was contracted under 20-year tolling agreements to Osaka Gas, JERA Energy, BP, Total, and SK E&S LNG, and approximately 0.5 MMT/Y was contracted to Trafigura under a 3-year sale and purchase agreement beginning in 2020.
Zachry Group, as the joint venture lead, partnered with McDermott for the Pre-FEED in 2011, followed by FEED works to support the early development stage of the project as a one-stop shop solution provider. Later Chiyoda joined the partnership and the joint team provided engineering, procurement and facility construction as well as commissioning and initial operations for the project, the project’s EPC leader McDermott International has reminded in a separate statement.
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