Subsidiaries of California-based Sempra Energy have filed paperwork with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a new LNG facility in Texas, Kallanish Energy reports.
The liquefication/export facility would be built in Port Arthur along the Sabine-Neches Waterway in southeast Texas near the Louisiana border.
The plant would contain two processing units or trains and could produce about 13.5 million metric tons per year or process about 700 billion cubic feet per year of natural gas.
There would be additional storage tanks and shipping facilities as part of the project.
A separate application was filed with FERC to build pipelines to deliver natural gas to the plant.
“We are pleased to continue advancing the Port Arthur LNG project,” said Octavio Simoes, president of Sempra LNG & Midstream, in a statement.
Sempra LNG & Midstream and Woodside Energy signed a project development agreement last February to share costs in developing the Port Arthur facility.
The Sempra project would be the third LNG export facility near Port Arthur. One was developed by Cheniere Energy and one is being developed by a consortium headed by ExxonMobil.
Earlier this week, San Diego-based Sempra bowed out of a $6.5 billion natural gas pipeline project in Peru.
