NextDecade awards Honeywell liquefaction contract for Rio Grande LNG Trains 4-5
NextDecade Corp.’s Rio Grande LNG LLC has awarded Honeywell International Inc. a contract to supply liquefaction process technology and equipment for Trains 4 and Train 5 of its 30-million tonne/year (tpy) plant, under development in Brownsville, Tex. The award was made through an agreement with engineering, procurement, and construction contractor Bechtel Energy Inc.
NextDecade will use Honeywell’s high-efficiency coil wound heat exchanger equipment and C3MR process technology. Honeywell’s LNG technology is also being used for the plant’s first three liquefaction trains. Trains 4 and 5 will increase Rio Grande LNG’s capacity from 18-million tpy to the full 30 million. NextDecade expects all five trains to be operational by mid-2031.
Bechtel last month awarded ABB Ltd. the integrated automation and electrical solution orders Trains 4 and 5. Scope includes deployment of an integrated control and safety system consisting of a distributed control system, emergency shutdown, and fire and gas systems.
TotalEnergies SE owns 10% of Train 4 and 17% of NextDecade. The French major plans to reinvest part of the roughly $1 billion in of offshore wind lease fees it was refunded by the Trump administration to develop Rio Grande LNG Trains 1-4.
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