The United States Federal Energy Regulatory issued a draft Environmental Impact Statement for Venture Global’s Plaquemines project on the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
The proposed project would include a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and two 42-inch-diameter pipelines in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
The FERC staff concludes that construction and operation of the project would result in some adverse environmental impacts, but impacts would be reduced to less-than-significant levels with mitigation.
In addition, we developed other site-specific mitigation measures that Venture Global should implement to further reduce the environmental impacts that would otherwise result from construction of the project.
Plaquemines LNG project includes a liquefaction plant consisting of 18 liquefaction blocks developed in two phases, with each block having a nameplate capacity of 1.2 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) and consisting.
It will also contain four 200,000-cbm LNG full containment storage tanks with cryogenic pipeline connections to the liquefaction plant and berthing docks.
Additionally, the facility will include up to three marine loading berths for ocean-going ships capable of receiving LNG carriers up to 185,000 cubic meters in capacity.
It will also include a utility dock on the Mississippi River to handle waterborne deliveries of equipment and material during both construction and project operations.
Venture Global LNG expects to reach a final investment decision on the project in late 2019 and reach the first commercial operations phase in late 2022.