Venture Global earns commissioning approval at Calcasieu Pass
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on December 13 approved a request from LNG company Venture Global to start the commissioning process for liquefaction modules at its Calcasieu Pass export facility in Louisiana.
The commissioned issued a letter to Fory Musser, a senior vice president for development at Venture Global, granting the request for commissioning at the Block 2 liquefaction modules.
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Venture Global has plans to install 18 modular liquefaction trains, in pairs, at Calcasieu Pass. Each train is rated at 0.626mn mt/yr, giving all nine liquefaction modules a nominal capacity of 10mn mt/yr. The facility could enter commercial service in Q4 2022 or Q1 2023.
“Please note that this approval does not grant Venture Global the authority to construct, commission, or introduce hazardous fluids into other project facilities at the LNG terminal,” FERC’s letter stated.
Once Calcasieu Pass starts commercial service, and once new trains at the Sabine Pass facility in Texas come online, the federal government estimates the United States will be the world leader in terms of LNG export capacity.
Venture Global in early December filed an application with FERC for a new facility near the Calcasieu Ship Channel, dubbed CP2 for its location in Cameron Parish and its proximity to the Calcasieu Pass facility.
Venture in its filing with FERC said the CP2 facility would feature units that would remove CO2 and hydrogen sulfide. Additional facilities associated with the terminal could sequester as much as 500,000 mt/year of CO2.