Kiewit receives LNTP for Glenfarne’s Texas LNG export terminal

Glenfarne Group's Texas LNG Brownsville has issued a constricted announcement to proceed (LNTP) to Kiewit Energy Group for the projected Texas LNG task astatine the Port of Brownsville, Texas.

Kiewit is the engineering, procurement and operation (EPC) contractor for the liquefied earthy state (LNG) export terminal.

The announcement covers procurement of long-lead equipment, EPC signifier engineering activities and geotechnical work. These measures are intended to hole the task for full-scale operation and a last concern determination successful the future.

Glenfarne CEO and laminitis Brendan Duval said: "The LNTP enactment and acquisition orders show the spot of the project's world-class spouse web and Glenfarne's continued disciplined advancement of Texas LNG.

"By progressing cardinal equipment, engineering and site-readiness enactment during LNTP, we are maintaining task momentum, improving execution certainty and positioning Texas LNG to determination efficiently into afloat construction."

In March 2026, Glenfarne executed a lump-sum turnkey EPC statement with Kiewit for the project. The institution has besides received authorisation from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to conception and run the facility.

The caller support of acquisition orders and engineering enactment nether the LNTP builds connected these erstwhile milestones arsenic the task targets the transportation of lower-emission US LNG to planetary customers.

The Texas LNG export terminal, if built, volition beryllium located connected the Brownsville Ship Channel successful Cameron County. It is expected to person a capableness of 4 cardinal tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG.

The installation is designed with electrical centrifugal drives to trim emissions.

In August 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated and remanded the FERC's authorisation for Texas LNG.

The tribunal cited a deficiency of supplemental biology reappraisal and insufficient information of biology justness and aerial prime issues.

Earlier this year, Texas LNG Brownsville entered into a definitive 20-year income and acquisition statement with RWE Supply & Trading for the proviso of 1mtpa of LNG.

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