Sempra Selects Bechtel for Port Arthur EPC Work
Sempra Energy and Bechtel have signed a fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Port Arthur LNG liquefaction project under development in Port Arthur, Texas, the companies said March 3 in a joint statement.
As part of the EPC contract, Bechtel Oil, Gas, and Chemicals, a unit of Bechtel, will perform the detailed engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, performance testing and operator training activities for the project. The scope of the agreement also includes continuing pre-final investment decision engineering to better assure project cost and schedule certainty, the companies said.
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The Port Arthur LNG development project is expected to initially include two liquefaction trains, two LNG storage tanks, a marine berth and associated loading facilities and related infrastructure necessary to provide liquefaction services, with a nameplate capacity of approximately 13.5mn metric tons/year of LNG.
In January, Sempra and Saudi Aramco signed an interim provisional agreement for transferring equity in the Port Arthur project. The two signed a heads of agreement in May last year for the purchase of 5mn mt/yr of LNG and a 25% equity investment in the project. In December 2018, Port Arthur LNG entered into an agreement with Polish Oil and Gas Company for the sale and purchase of 2mn mt/yr.
The Port Arthur LNG project received authorisation from the US Department of Energy to export domestically produced LNG to countries that do not have a free trade agreement with the US in May 2019.