Freeport LNG Provides Update of Plant Restart

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Since its Quintana Island, Texas, liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and export plant suffered an explosion and fire on June 8, causing a plant-wide shutdown, Freeport LNG (Houston, Texas) has been at work trying to bring the plant back online. Finally, an end may be in sight.

On Friday, Freeport released a statement saying that work to bring all three trains and associated facilities back online was about 90% complete as of November 14, with all reconstruction work expected to be completed by the end of the month.

Work activities for the restart have been submitted to relevant agencies, and if regulatory requirements are met, the 15 million-tonne-per-year plant is targeted to begin production in mid-December. The U.S. Pipeline Hazardous Materials and Safety Administration said last month it will not authorize a partial restart until all proposed changes are received and accepted.

Each of Freeport's three production trains will be restarted separately before restarting the next, with an expected 2 billion cubic feet per day of production expected to be achieved in January and full production anticipated to begin in March 2023.

Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Production Project Database can click here for details of the rebuild project.

In related news, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in October granted Freeport an additional two years to construct a fourth production train at the plant. The previous deadline to construct the train was May 2026, but FERC has now extended this to August 2028. The train would add another 5.1 million tons of production capacity. Subscribers can click here for more details.

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