The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission found that the construction of Sempra Energy’s Port Arthur Liquefaction Project, a natural gas liquefaction and export terminal in Texas, and the associated pipeline projects would result in some adverse environmental impacts, which would be reduced to less-than-significant levels, according to a Jan. 31 notice. The facility, proposed by Port Arthur LNG LLC, includes two liquefaction trains, each with a capacity of 6.73 million tons per annum of LNG for export. PALNG Common Facilities Company LLC would construct the pipeline projects – the 39-mile Texas Connector and 131-mile Louisiana Connector – designed to bring feed gas to the liquefaction facilities.

Sempra plans to begin construction in the third quarter of 2019, with commercial operations anticipated in the fourth quarter of 2023. Sempra Energy announced last December that Polish Oil & Gas Company entered into a 20-year agreement to purchase LNG from Port Arthur and signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Gas Corporation for potential participation in the project.