{"id":158431,"date":"2026-02-10T14:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158431\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:36:12","slug":"cheniere-files-for-24-mt-year-corpus-christi-lng-expansion-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158431\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheniere files for 24 Mt\/year Corpus Christi LNG expansion (US)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US LNG infrastructure group Cheniere Energy has filed an application with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)\u00a0to build a new LNG facility at its Corpus Christi site in Texas, United States (Offshore Technology, 06\/02\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>The current capacity of the Corpus Christi plant is 18 Mt\/year, and the Stage 3 expansion currently underway will raise it to 25 Mt\/year by the end of 2026.<br \/>\nThe planned Stage 4 expansion is intended to add 24 Mt\/year of capacity to existing operations, with a proposal for four additional LNG trains, each with a potential production capacity of 6 Mt\/year.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the Stage 4 expansion would increase the plant\u2019s total capacity to 49 Mt\/year. Cheniere expects to require 3.3 bcf\/day (34 bcm\/year)\u00a0for this expansion and to secure federal authorization for the project by May 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Cheniere currently operates total LNG capacity of 52 Mt\/year and has a further 8\u00a0Mt\/year under development. In June 2025, Cheniere announced a positive final investment decision for the expansion of the Corpus Christi LNG facility, including the construction of the 5\u00a0Mt\/year Trains 8 and 9 (KEI, 26\/06\/2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US LNG infrastructure group Cheniere Energy has filed an application with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-158431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}