Dominion awards CB&I LNG expansion work

Dominion Cove Point LNG LP has awarded a lump-sum, turnkey contract to Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I), The Woodlands, Tex., to carry out a major expansion of its Cove Point, Md., LNG terminal.

Jan. 11, 2005

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Jan. 11 -- Dominion Cove Point LNG LP has awarded a lump-sum, turnkey contract to Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I), The Woodlands, Tex., to carry out a major expansion of its Cove Point, Md., LNG terminal.

CB&I will perform engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of an additional 800 MMscfd of regasification and sendout process equipment; gas turbine generation; two 160,000 cu m LNG storage tanks; new administration, control, and maintenance buildings; and all ancillary systems.

The expansion will increase the facility's sendout capacity to 1.8 billion scfd and nearly double storage capacity to 14.6 bcf of natural gas. CB&I is supporting the permit filing process with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and has received approval to begin engineering and procurement. Completion is expected in late 2008.

CB&I built the original four LNG storage tanks at Cove Point and a fifth LNG storage tank put into commercial operation in December. The new 135,000 cu m tank increased the terminal's storage capacity to 7.8 bcf of natural gas from 5 bcf.