Bechtel Readies for Sabine Pass LNG Production, Continues Work on Combined-Cycle Projects in New York, Ohio

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Cheniere Energy Incorporated's (Houston, Texas) Sabine Pass terminal, which will be the first to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the continental U.S., is being commissioned and is on track to begin production before 2016. Bechtel Corporation (San Francisco, California), which is performing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work for the project, said that the first of six planned liquefaction plants at the terminal in Cameron, Louisiana, will be brought online before the end of the year. Industrial Info is tracking more than $117 billion in active projects involving Bechtel, including more than $75 billion in North America.

The plant will have a 4.5 million-ton-per-year LNG capacity, with a natural gas inlet capacity of 2 billion cubic feet per day and five 160,000-cubic-meter LNG storage tanks. Cheniere will use existing marine facilities to export product. For details on this project, see Industrial Info's project report.

Four of the other five liquefaction plants are under construction; the fifth, which is designed to produce 4.5 million metric tonnes per year of LNG, would bring the facility's total production capacity to 24.5 million metric tonnes per year. The last train received approval from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in April, as well as approval from the U.S. Department of Energy for export to countries within and without the Free Trade Agreement, and it expects to receive capital approval before the end of the year. For details, see Industrial Info's project report.

In a separate project, Bechtel is performing EPC services for the planned $1.4 billion, combined-cycle Cricket Valley Energy Center in Dover Plains, New York. The 1,000-megawatt facility is expected to consist of three 199.8-MW, General Electric (NYSE:GE) combustion turbine generators, with three duct-fired, heat-recovery steam generators, and three GE steam-turbine generator sets. For details on this project, which is set to begin construction in first-quarter 2016 and to be completed in about three years later, see Industrial Info's project report.

Cricket Valley Energy LLC, an affiliate of Advanced Power AG (Zug, Switzerland), says the plant will generate power for nearly 1 million households.

Bechtel is at work on a project from another Advance Power affiliate, Carroll County Energy LLC: the $800 million Carroll County Energy Center in Carrollton, Ohio. The 700-MW, natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant, which is undergoing site preparation, is being built in a 2-on-1 configuration, utilizing two GE combustion turbine generators, each with a capacity of 210 MW, with two heat-recovery steam generators and a 280-MW steam turbine. The project is set to be completed in second-quarter 2017. For details on this project, see Industrial Info's project report.

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