NextDecade Corp. contractor Bechtel Energy Inc. signed Air Products Inc. to provide liquefaction technology and equipment for the Rio Grande LNG Phase 1 project in the Port of Brownsville, Tex.

The project’s first phase will include three natural gas liquefaction trains with a production capability of about 17.6 million tonnes/year (tpy) of LNG.

Air Products will provide coil-would heat exchangers (CWHEs) and process technology. The CWHEs will be built at the service provider’s plant in Port Manatee, Fla.

NextDecade made a positive final investment decision (FID) on Phase 1 of its 27-million tpy Rio Grande LNG (RGLNG) plant in July (OGJ Online, July 13, 2023).

In conjunction with FID, RGLNG issued the notice to proceed with Phase 1 construction to Bechtel Energy under its lump-sum turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction contract (EPC).