Sempra to sell RWE 2.25 mtpy of LNG from Port Arthur

Sempra Infrastructure has agreed to sell RWE Supply & Trading 2.25 million tonnes/year (tpy) of LNG on a 15-year, free-on-board basis from Sempra’s 13.5-million tpy Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project under development in Jefferson County, Tex. Sempra and RWE also agreed to work toward a broad framework for reduction, mitigation, and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with deliveries of LNG from Port Arthur LNG, including the use of responsibly sourced natural gas as part of the project's feed gas supply and renewable energy as part of its power mix.

Phase 1 of Port Arthur LNG is fully permitted and will include two liquefaction trains and two 160,000-cu m LNG storage tanks.

The heads of agreement reached between the two companies are preliminary, non-binding arrangements, and the development of Port Arthur LNG remains subject to reaching definitive agreements, maintaining all necessary permits, finalizing engineering and construction arrangements, obtaining financing and incentives, and reaching a final investment decision.

Sempra has also entered an MoU with Entergy Louisiana, a subsidiary of Entergy Corp., to develop options to accelerate deployment of renewable energy to power its US Gulf Coast operations. Sempra’s proposed Hackberry Carbon Sequestration site in southwest Louisiana will have the potential to sequester up to 2 million tpy of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from LNG plants and other industrial sites in the region (OGJ Online, May 23, 2022).