Sempra LNG Commissioning Final Cameron Train

Sempra LNG said April 22 it has begun commissioning the third and final train at its 12mn mt/yr Cameron LNG terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana, following federal regulatory approvals issued earlier this week.

“Cameron LNG is a huge success story and a great tribute to what this organization and its people are capable of,” Lisa Glatch, COO of Sempra LNG and board chair for Cameron LNG, said. “We are proud of Sempra LNG’s development of this project as well as Cameron LNG’s employees and contractors who have built and are operating this facility.”

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Authority (Ferc) issued a series of authorisations earlier this week permitting Cameron LNG to begin introducing feed gas and other hazardous materials to Train 3. Commercial operation of the train remains on-track to begin in Q3 2020.

The terminal produced first LNG from Train 1 in May 2019, and since then has shipped 58 LNG cargoes.

Cameron LNG is jointly owned by affiliates of Sempra LNG, French Total and Japan’s Mitsui & Co and Japan LNG Investment, which is owned by Mitsubishi and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha. Sempra Energy indirectly owns 50.2% of Cameron LNG.