Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG to commission fourth liquefaction block with nitrogen

According to a filing, the regulator approved the commissioning of the block on October 16.

The FERC granted the commissioning of the liquefaction train system block 3 with nitrogen on September 30, block 2 on September 10, and block 1 on August 23, previous fillings show.

Venture Global took a final investment decision in May 2022 on the first phase of the Plaquemines project with a capacity of 13.3 mtpa and the related pipeline. It also secured $13.2 billion in project financing.

In March last year, 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.

First LNG

Last month, Venture Global received approval from the FERC to start reverse cooldown activities at its Plaquemines LNG export plant, as part of the terminal’s commissioning phase.

Venture Global posted an image via its social media on August 23 of the 2020-built 174,000-cbm, Qogir, at the Plaquemines LNG export facility.

The company said in its August construction report filed with FERC that the LNG carrier docked at the second Plaquemines LNG loading platform (LP2).

Qogir left the jetty in September and picked up a cargo at Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass facility, according to its AIS data provided by VesselsValue.

In August, Venture Global revealed in a FERC filing that it expects to start LNG production at its Plaquemines LNG plant in the fall of this year.

Venture Global said at the time that the company’s second project had completed nearly 80 percent of its construction.

Venture Global is targeting first production of LNG this fall, with “exports of LNG on
a pre-commercial operation basis beginning soon thereafter,” it said.

The company previously said it expects the commissioning process for the Plaquemines LNG terminal to take about 24 months.