Glenfarne Energy Transition LLC’s 4-million tonne/year (tpy) Texas LNG plant, under development in the Port of Brownsville, Tex., has received its Section 10 and Section 404 permits from the US Army Corps of Engineers and Texas state-level approval from the Railroad Commission of Texas, completing the permitting required for a final investment decision.
These approvals follow Texas LNG’s signing a heads of agreement (HOA) with EQT Corp. for natural gas liquefaction totaling 0.5 million tpy of LNG (OGJ Online, Jan. 12, 2024). Texas LNG says it is in “advanced stages of negotiation” for remaining volumes from the project and expects to conclude these in the near-term, including finalizing previously executed but unannounced HOA and MOU.
It expects all such agreements to be complete first-half 2024 and to subsequently close financing and begin construction.
Glenfarne late last year reached agreements with Bakes Hughes Co. and ABB Ltd. to help develop the plant, with ABB to supply electrical and automation equipment and Baker Hughes compression (OGJ Online, Dec. 11, 2023). First cargoes are expected to be loaded in 2028.