The US company Cheniere has reached an FID on the construction of the 5 Mt/year Corpus Christi Midscale Trains 8 & 9 and Debottlenecking Project. The CCL Midscale Trains 8 & 9 is being built adjacent to the Corpus Christi Stage 3 Project and consists of two midscale trains with an expected total liquefaction capacity of over 3 Mt/year of LNG and other debottlenecking infrastructure (+2 Mt/year). Once completed, the project should increase the capacity of the Corpus Christi LNG terminal to over 30 Mt/year before 2030.
Cheniere has also announced an updated run-rate LNG production outlook, showing a 10% increase in the combined liquefaction capacity across the Cheniere platform at Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi to over 60 Mt/year, which includes the CCL Midscale Trains 8 & 9 expansion. The company also expects to execute brownfield liquefaction capacity expansions in a phased approach to grow its LNG platform to up to approximately 75 Mt/year by the early 2030s.
Cheniere’s LNG platforms consists of the Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi liquefaction facilities on the US Gulf Coast, with total production capacity of over 46 Mt/year of LNG in operation and an about 13 Mt/year of expected production capacity under construction.