Bechtel will begin full construction in April on the estimated $25-billion Driftwood liquefied natural gas complex in Louisiana under a $15.5-billion fixed-price contract, a spokeswoman for energy firm Tellurian Inc. said.

Charif Souki, the developer’s executive chairman, said in a podcast earlier this month that work will start without an official final investment decision while the firm completes finance negotiations. “We have access to enough capital to complete the first year of construction,” he said in a Feb. 4 announcement.

该项目如果完全范围建造，将包括五列液化火车，三个液化天然气储罐，一个海洋码头和96英里管道，峰值约有6,500名建筑工人。

The spokeswoman said LNG shipment is set to start in 2026. Tellurian noted 10-year agreements with three LNG users for about 9 million metric tons per year.

FERC收紧汽油项目评论

While the project received construction approval in 2019 from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, it is likelyto face new agency scrutiny, as will other natural gas projects, over climate change, landowner and community impacts, as well as stated need for the fuel supply, in a FERC policy change approved 3-2. It updates policy in place since 1999 and affects both new and pending project approvals.

FERC will look more closely at a project's greenhouse gas emissions during operation, but also those from upstream gas production and downstream gas use.

FERC”提出了一个推定，该推定提议的项目估计每年的二氧化碳量为100,000吨的温18luck官网室气体排放将对环境产生重大影响，” 2月17日，Husch Blackwell LLP的律师弗雷德里克·贾斯四世说。analysis.

He adds that the information could be used "as a threshold trigger" to determine whether a project would need a more involved environmental impact statement during a NEPA review rather than an environmental review that had been typical.

Jauss termed the new policy "an unprecedented expansion of FERC’s consideration of environmental impacts of proposed projects," which will "undoubtedly be subject to judicial challenge."

评论s on the GHG policy can be filed through April 4.

FERC's Glick: "Not Here to Create Roadblocks"

The US Chamber of Commerce's Global Energy Institute said the FERC action "will make it much more difficult to permit and build badly needed natural gas infrastructure."

For FERC Chairman Richard Glick, a Democrat named to lead the commission last year, "This is not some sort of political maneuver to get natural gas out of our system or to get natural gas to not be a fuel of choice in the future," he toldS&P Global. "I'm not here to create roadblocks for pipelines."

Meanwhile, the Sierra Club has filed a petition on behalf of Louisiana environmental groups that asks the US Environmental Protection Agency to deny Tellurian’s federal Clean Air Act operating permit request for the proposed terminal, claiming flaws in its application and an incorrect approval by the state's environmental agency based on errors in its emissions modeling.

贝克特尔还说,2月7日,它完成了吧k on the sixth LNG-processing train at the Sabine Pass facility, also in Louisiana, with the project for Cheniere Energy finished ahead of schedule and within budget. Work began in June 2019. The facility now has total production capacity of about 30 million tons per year.

Cheniere Energy said it could make a final investment decision this year on a proposed expansion of its Corpus Christi, Texas LNG facility.