Bechtel Energy announced on July 18 that it has agreed to a fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction contract for the second phase of Sempra Infrastructure’s Port Arthur LNG expansion project. The award comes four years after Bechtel signed on to deliver the first phase of the LNG project. In March 2023, Sempra reported total capital expenditures for the first phase at $13 billion.
Construction of the Port Arthur LNG liquefaction and natural gas export terminal in southeast Texas is in its first phase, consisting of two liquefaction trains and two LNG storage tanks and facilities associates A Bechtel press release estimated that the planned commercial operation dates for trains 1 and 2 are 2027 and 2028, respectively.
The second phase of the project will add up to two additional liquefaction trains, according to Bechtel.
“We are excited about the opportunity to advance our partnership with Sempra Infrastructure on the Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 project, a vital project that will play a crucial role in meeting the world’s growing need for cleaner and more reliable energy,” Paul Marsden, President. of Bechtel Energy, he said in a statement.
In late June, Sempra announced that it had signed a 20-year purchase and sale agreement with Aramco, a Saudi Arabian oil and natural gas company, for liquefied natural gas from the Port Arthur LNG facility . In that same announcement, Sempra said Port Arthur LNG “has the potential to expand to a total of eight trains.”
Sempra also noted that it is continuing to move forward with its proposed Titan Carbon Sequestration project, which will seek to capture carbon emitted from the Port Arthur LNG facility. The project would transport the captured CO₂ through a pipeline, delivering it to an injection well more than a mile underground. The company says that earlier this year it began the permitting process for this project by submitting a Class VI application, which covers wells used for carbon dioxide sequestration, to the Protection Agency of the Environment.
