Venture Global LNG’s Plaquemines Export Project Clears Federal Environmental Review

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission found that the construction of  Venture Global LNG Inc.’s Plaquemines LNG, a natural gas liquefaction and export terminal in Louisiana, and the associated pipeline projects would result in some adverse environmental impacts, which would be reduced to less-than-significant levels, according to a May 3 notice.

The Plaquemines terminal consists of liquefaction and LNG distribution facilities on a site leased by Venture Global on the Mississippi River. The project includes six pretreatment facilities, a liquefaction plant with 18 blocks to be constructed in two phases, and four 200,000-cubic-meter above-ground LNG storage tanks. The terminal is designed to have an export capacity of 20 million metric tonnes per year.

The proposed Gator Express pipeline project that will connect the LNG terminal to the existing U.S. natural gas transmission grid consists of two parallel 42-inch pipelines, a 15-mile-long Southwest Lateral Tennessee Gas Pipeline LLC Pipeline and a 12-mile long Southwest Lateral Texas Eastern Transmission LP.

Venture Global expects to commence construction in late 2019 with full commercial operations anticipated in 2023.