Cheniere enters Corpus Christi Stage 3 offtake agreement with Glencore

Cheniere Energy Inc. subsidiary, Cheniere Marketing LLC, has entered into a binding 13-year agreement to sell 0.8 million tonnes/year (tpy) of LNG to a subsidiary of Glencore PLC. Glencore will buy the LNG on a free-on-board Henry Hub-indexed basis starting in April 2023.

Cheniere is in the process of contracting capacity in advance of a 2022 final investment decision (FID) on its 10-million tpy Corpus Christi Stage 3 project. Corpus Christi Stage 3 will include as many as seven midscale liquefaction trains and has received all necessary regulatory approvals.

Assuming Cheniere takes FID on Stage 3, it plans to build a new bidirectional natural gas pipeline to deliver feed gas to it. 

The company put the third train of its initial Corpus Christi LNG development stages into service earlier this year, bringing the plant’s total capacity to 15 million tpy (OGJ Online, Mar. 29, 2021).