{"id":58248,"date":"2025-11-20T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58248\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:48:20","slug":"cheniere-to-boost-capacity-of-corpus-christi-midscale-trains-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58248\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheniere to boost capacity of Corpus Christi midscale trains"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first three Corpus Christi trains have a capacity of approximately 15 mtpa.<\/p>\n

Cheniere\u00a0made the final investment decision\u00a0<\/a>on the Corpus Christi Stage 3 expansion project, worth about $8 billion, in June 2022.<\/p>\n

The project includes building seven midscale trains, each with an expected liquefaction capacity of appoxmately 1.49 mtpa.<\/p>\n

In addition, Cheniere\u00a0decided<\/a>\u00a0in June this year to build two more midscale trains at its Corpus Christi LNG plant.<\/p>\n

The CCL midscale trains 8 and 9 project is being built adjacent to the Corpus Christi Stage 3 project and consists of two midscale trains with an expected total liquefaction capacity of over 3 mtpa of LNG and other debottlenecking infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Last month, Cheniere achieved <\/a>substantial completion of the third liquefaction train at the Corpus Christi Stage 3 expansion project.<\/p>\n

Cheniere expects first LNG from Train 4 in November 2025 and substantial completion \u201caround year-end 2025 or early 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trains 5 \u2013 7 are scheduled to reach substantial completion throughout 2026.<\/p>\n

Capacity boost<\/p>\n

Cheniere now expects these trains to produce more LNG than originally expected, and revealed more details on the expansion plans in a FERC filing dated November 14.<\/p>\n

Cheniere\u2019s units CCL and CCL Midscale 8-9 submitted to the FERC a request for determination by the Director of the Office of Energy Projects that the CCL entities\u2019 anticipated application for a limited amendment to increase the LNG production capacity of the facilities authorized by the regulator is not subject to the Commission\u2019s mandatory pre-filing procedure.<\/p>\n

In November 2019, FERC granted an order ot the units to site, construct, and operate the Stage 3 project, consisting of midscale natural gas liquefaction trains 1-7 with a maximum annual production capacity of approximately 582.14 billion cubic feet per year (bcf\/y) and associated facilities.<\/p>\n

In March this year, the Commission authorized the CCL entities to site, construct and operate the Trains 8 & 9 project, consisting of two trains with a maximum LNG production capacity of approximately 170 bcf\/y and associated facilities.<\/p>\n

The CCL entities seek Commission authorization to increase the LNG production capacity of
Midscale Trains 1-9 by 251 bcf\/y, from the currently authorized 752.14 bcf\/y to approximately 1,003.14 bcf\/y (CCL midscale uprate), they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on refinements made during the final design and construction of the Stage 3 project, as well as production data gathered through commissioning, the CCL entities have more precise knowledge and insight concerning the potential production capacity of the midscale trains,\u201d Chenere\u2019s units said.<\/p>\n

According to the units, rhese refinements and optimizations do not involve significant or major modifications of existing facilities, additional construction of new facilities, or additional environmental impacts.<\/p>\n

The CCL entities anticipate filing an application with FERC pursuant to NGA Section 3 for the
CCL midscale uprate project by no later than December 5, 2025. <\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, the CCL Entities respectfully request that the Director of OEP issue the waiver requested herein on an expedited basis, by no later than November 21, 2025,\u201d the units said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first three Corpus Christi trains have a capacity of approximately 15 mtpa. Cheniere\u00a0made the final investment decision\u00a0on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10085,155,157,156,10086],"class_list":{"0":"post-58248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-cheniere","9":"tag-corpus-christi","10":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","11":"tag-corpus-christi-news","12":"tag-ferc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58248","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=58248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}