NextDecade Corp. and Baker Hughes Co. have signed a deal for the latter to supply its fuel turbine and refrigerant compressor know-how for the subsequent 5 trains of Rio Grande LNG.
Baker Hughes has already been contracted to provide refrigerant compressors and fuel generators for the primary part of the Brownsville, Texas challenge. Part 1 can have three trains with a complete nameplate capability of about 18 million metric tons each year. Building is being applied by Bechtel Power Inc.
“Using Baker Hughes’ industry-leading rotating gear and their upkeep companies is crucial to making sure the Rio Grande LNG Facility operates effectively and reliably”, Matt Schatzman, chair and chief government of NextDecade, stated in a joint assertion by the businesses.
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“We look ahead to persevering with our collaboration with Baker Hughes as we progress our plans to make the Rio Grande LNG Facility one of many largest LNG manufacturing and export amenities on this planet”.
The assertion stated, “NextDecade is making glorious progress on commercializing Rio Grande LNG Trains 4 and 5”.
“The Firm expects to make constructive remaining funding selections and begin building on Trains 4 and 5 and associated infrastructure on the Rio Grande LNG Facility, topic to, amongst different issues, sustaining requisite governmental approvals, finalizing and getting into into EPC [engineering, procurement and construction] contracts, getting into into applicable business preparations, and acquiring satisfactory financing to assemble every prepare and associated infrastructure”, it stated.
“NextDecade is creating and starting the allowing course of for Trains 6 by 8”, the assertion added.
Solely trains 1-5 have the required approvals from United States authorities. NextDecade has farmed out stakes within the first three trains and these companions have choices to spend money on trains 4 and 5. Trains 6-8 are wholly owned by NextDecade, in keeping with a enterprise replace by the corporate February 28.
It stated in that replace, “We plan to pre-file an software with the Federal Regulatory Power Fee (FERC) for Practice 6 this 12 months”. NextDecade expects a full FERC software for prepare 6 early 2026.
“Trains 7 and eight are being developed on the positioning exterior of the prevailing levee”, it stated. “Moreover, we anticipate to discover choices for the event of as much as two further trains at our web site past Practice 8”.
On July 12, 2023, NextDecade introduced a remaining funding resolution on Part 1, earmarking $18.4 billion then. The challenge had been deliberate to have a carbon seize element. Nevertheless, NextDecade stated August 20, 2024, it withdrew its allow software to construct the emission mitigation element.
At full operation Rio Grande LNG’s capability can be sufficient to warmth and funky the equal of practically 34 million households yearly, in keeping with a factsheet revealed on-line by NextDecade.
Rio Grande LNG has secured a allow to export to international locations with no free commerce settlement (FTA) with the U.S. by 2050, prolonged from an earlier 20-year authorization, in keeping with a call by the Division of Power (DOE) October 21, 2020. The authorization requires Rio Grande LNG to start out export February 2027.
Rio Grande LNG additionally holds a 30-year authorization to export to nations with an FTA with the U.S., in keeping with a DOE resolution issued August 17, 2016.
Nevertheless, on August 6, 2024, the Courtroom of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated the FERC’s allow for Rio Grande LNG as a result of the fee had not issued a supplemental Environmental Influence Assertion in reauthorizing the challenge, in keeping with NextDecade.
On October 21, 2024, NextDecade filed a petition for rehearing with the court docket.
On September 13, 2024, FERC issued notices of intent to organize supplemental Environmental Influence Statements on Rio Grande LNG, the Rio Bravo pipeline and the Texas LNG terminal initiatives.
NextDecade stated in its enterprise replace final month, “The Courtroom’s resolution is not going to be efficient till the Courtroom has issued its mandate, which isn’t anticipated to happen till after the appeals course of has been accomplished”.
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