Posted on March 4, 2020
San Diego utility company Sempra Energy has tapped engineering, procurement and construction firm Bechtel as the contractor to build the Port Arthur LNG export terminal southeast of Houston.
Financial terms were not disclosed but the two companies described the construction deal as a fixed-price EPC contract in a joint Tuesday morning statement.
With a federal permit already in hand, the first phase of Port Arthur LNG will include two production units, known in the industry as trains, that will make 13.5 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas per year. Sempra has yet to make a final investment decision for the project but already has deals in place with Saudi Aramco and Polish Oil & Gas Co. that will help to support the facility.
“Port Arthur LNG plays an important role in Sempra’s goal of becoming one of North America’s largest developers of liquefaction-export infrastructure projects and we look forward to continuing to move the project forward,” Sempra Energy CEO Jeff Martin said in a statement.
Over the past few decades, Bechtel has built 46 trains that make a combined 132 million metric tons of LNG per year in nine nations.
Here in the United States, the company has built production units for Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG and Corpus Christi LNG export terminals.
“We are honored and grateful that Sempra has chosen Bechtel as their trusted partner to help grow Sempra’s LNG business on the Gulf Coast,” Bechtel CEO Brendan Bechtel said. “Together, we will deliver an important, clean and sustainable energy source to the world while creating jobs and building economic opportunities for the Gulf Coast community.”
Source: chron.com
