The Texas LNG project is a multi-decade
liquid natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the vol ...
shipping terminal project near
Brownsville, Texas. It has been in the planning stages since the early 2010s and, as of 2019, gained
regulatory authority
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approval for construction and operation in the 2020s, with initial export shipments as early as 2025. The facility is intended to enable US
natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...
that is in good
supply
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*The amount of a resource that is available
**Supply (economics), the amount of a product which is available to customers
**Materiel, the goods and equipment for a military unit to fulfill its mission
*Supply, as in confidenc ...
in the US to be efficiently stored and shipped to the global market in an efficient (liquified) form.
The Texas LNG LLC company of
Houston, Texas completed environmental review and received a permit from the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 2019. The company is expected to make the final investment decision on the project no earlier than 2021, and start construction on the project as early as 2022.
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Description
The project is intended, when fully built out circa 2030, to process up to 4 million tonnes of natural gas annually. Phase 1 of the project will process just half that, and could be operational as early as 2025. Phase 1 of the project will be able to process up to .[
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History
The United States has had a massive shift in LNG terminal planning and construction starting in 2010-2011 due to a rapid increase in US domestic natural gas supply with the widespread adoption of hydraulic fracking petroleum recovery technology. Many new LNG import terminals are planning or have begun addition of liquefaction facilities to operate as export terminals.
Texas LNG LLC obtained the project site at the Port of Brownsville
The Port of Brownsville is a deep water seaport in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas.
Geography
The port is the southern terminus of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The port is located near the river mouth of the Rio Grande and Lower R ...
in 2013 (on the north side of the Brownsville Ship Channel
The Port of Brownsville is a deep water seaport in Brownsville, Texas, Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas.
Geography
The port is the southern terminus of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The port is located near the river mouth of the Rio ...
Texas LNG -- Port of Brownsville), and completed conceptual design and preliminary engineering in 2014. The front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for the project was completed by Samsung Engineering
Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. ( ko, 삼성엔지니어링) is a Korean construction and project management (EPC&PM) company, it provides a full range of engineering services including feasibility studies, design, procurement, construction, and co ...
in 2016.[Texas LNG Project, Brownsville, Texas]
, nsenergybusiness.com, accessed 16 June 2020.
The final environmental impact statement was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in March 2019.Port of Brownsville
The Port of Brownsville is a deep water seaport in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas.
Geography
The port is the southern terminus of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The port is located near the river mouth of the Rio Grande and Lower R ...
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Liquefied natural gas terminals
Energy infrastructure in Texas