EIA Expects US LNG Capacity to Double in 2019
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said December 10 it expects US LNG export capacity to more than double in 2019 as a raft of new liquefaction trains come on-line through the year.
The US is home to 3.6bn ft3/day (37.2bn m3/yr) of LNG export capacity now, the EIA says in its latest Today in Energy report, and that is expected to increase to about 4.9bn ft3/day by year-end as new trains enter commercial operation at Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi terminal in Texas and its Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana.
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By the end of 2019, export capacity should reach 8.9bn ft3/day (92bn m3/yr), reflecting a second train at Corpus Christi, all three trains at the 14.95mn metric tons/year (mt/yr) Cameron LNG terminal in Louisiana, the first two trains of the 15mn mt/yr Freeport LNG facility in Texas and all 10 small liquefaction modules at the 0.33mn mt/yr Elba Island LNG facility in Georgia.
LNG exports are forecast by the EIA to average 2.9bn ft3/day - equivalent to 30bn m3/yr, or about 21.75mn mt/yr - in 2018 and rise to an average of 5.2bn ft3/day in 2019 as the new capacity is commissioned and ramped up to operational levels.