FERC Issues Final EIS for Venture Global’s Calcasieu Project
The staff of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on October 22 issued a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for Venture Global’s 12mn metric tons/year Calcasieu Pass LNG project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
The final EIS also covers the companion TransCameron Pipeline Project, a 23.4-mile (37.6-km) pipeline to deliver 1.9bn ft3/day of feedgas from the US interstate gas transmission system to the liquefaction terminal, at the confluence of the Calcasieu Ship Channel and the Gulf of Mexico.
“The Ferc staff concludes that approval of the proposed project, with the mitigation measures recommended in the EIS, would have some adverse environmental impact; however, all of these impacts would be reduced to less-than-significant levels,” Ferc said in a notice advising of the final EIS.
Venture Global expects to receive final Ferc authorisation for Calcasieu Pass early next year, after which it would make a final investment decision on the project. Commercial operations for the first of the project’s nine 1.2mn mt/yr liquefaction blocks would begin in early 2022.