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Aerial map of Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi LNG facility highlighting expansion projects, including CCL Stage 4 and CCL Stage 3 with Midscale Trains 8 and 9, showing LNG infrastructure, storage tanks, and marine loading areas along the Texas Gulf Coast.

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NO. 1: Cheniere Energy Inc. told state and federal regulators that it would begin starting up the fifth train at its Corpus Christi LNG Stage 3 expansion project in South Texas this week.

In an emissions report filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Cheniere said its engineering contractor Bechtel Corp. would begin startup and commissioning operations on Wednesday (Jan. 14). Cheniere said the thermal oxidizer, furnace and ground flares would be operated during the initial startup work.