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The US FERC approved Venture Global Plaquemines LNG’s request from January 22 to commission and introduce hazardous fluids to liquefaction block 7, it said in a filing dated January 28.
Earlier this month, the regulator approved the commissioning of the liquefaction train system blocks 7 and 8 with nitrogen gas.
FERC granted the commissioning of the liquefaction train system block 1 in August 2024 and approved the commissioning of five additional blocks after that, previous fillings showed.
Venture Global took a final investment decision on the first phase of the Plaquemines project with a capacity of 13.3 mtpa and the related pipeline in May 2022. It also secured $13.2 billion in project financing.
In March 2023, the company sanctioned the second phase of the Plaquemines LNG export plant in Louisiana and also secured $7.8 billion in project financing.
The full project, including the second stage, will have a capacity of 20 mtpa coming from 36 modular units, configured in 18 blocks.
Each train has a capacity of 0.626 mtpa.
Venture Global said in its recent IPO statement it is targeting a COD (commercial operations date) for the Plaquemines project in the third quarter of 2026 for Phase 1 and the second quarter of 2027 for Phase 2.
Plaquemines LNG cargoes
Last month, Venture Global LNG received approval from FERC to export the first commissioning cargo from its Plaquemines LNG plant.
The approval came just a week after Venture Global started producing LNG at the company’s second facility.
With this, Plaquemines LNG became the eighth US LNG export facility.
In the meantime, the company has already delivered three Plaquemines LNG commissioning cargoes to Germany.
The 2021-built 174,000-cbm, Isabella, was on Wednesday located at the 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Esperanza, which serves DET’s first Wilhelmshaven LNG terminal, its AIS data provided by VesselsValue shows.
This LNG carrier left the Plaquemines LNG facility some two weeks ago.
Earlier this month, this FSRU welcomed the first commissioning LNG cargo from Venture Global’s Plaquemines plant onboard Venture Global’s 174,000-cbm newbuild carrier, Venture Bayou.
Germany’s EnBW bought this LNG cargo from Venture Global.
Venture Global said this shipment marked over 60 LNG cargoes sent from the company into Germany since 2022.
The second commissioning LNG cargo from the Plaquemines plant was recently delivered onboard Venture Global’s 174,000-cbm newbuild carrier, Venture Gator, to Brunsbüttel, the home of the 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Gannet.