Freeport LNG Development LP’s liquefaction plant on Quintana Island in Freeport, Tex., began commercial operation of its 4.64-million tonne/year (tpy) Train 3.
Final commissioning was reached in March (OGJ Online, Mar. 10, 2020).
Zachry Group, as Freeport’s contracting joint-venture lead, partnered with McDermott International Inc. for the project’s pre-front end engineering and design (FEED) in 2011, followed by FEED work for Trains 1 and 2. Chiyoda International Corp. joined the joint venture for work related to Train 3. Project scope includes three pre-treatment trains, a liquefaction plant with three trains, a second loading berth, and a 165,000-cu m full containment LNG storage tank.
The Freeport LNG facility, now in full commercial operation, incorporates the largest electric motor-driven refrigeration compressors in the world.
Freeport last year received US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval for Train 4 (OGJ Online, May 17, 2019), which will increase total capacity to 20 million tpy. Train 4 is expected to start operations in 2023.