Calcasieu Pass -- November 12, 2020

Updates

November 13, 2020: see reader's comments at this post.

Original Post

This is so cool. I have around 35,000 posts over almost twelve years, and yet there are only a handful that I really, really remember well. One was the October 12, 2016, post: list of potential US LNG export facilities. I remember it well; I was blown away by it. A reader, on the other hand was not, suggesting the US LNG export story was over-rated. Whatever. 

Look at the list provided at the original post as well as updates. Was "Venture Global Calcasieu Pass" listed anywhere on that page? Is it there under a different name? I don't know. Whatever.

But here we go, another LNG export facility in the news. The Venture Global LNG website is here. 

The update is over at Rigzone: Baker Hughes ships LNG trains to Calcasieu Pass. Link here. 

The first two factory-fabricated liquefaction trains have arrived at the Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in Cameron Parish, La., project developer Venture Global LNG, Inc. reported Tuesday.

Venture Global pointed out the two midscale, modular liquefaction trains and mixed refrigerant compressor skids were shipped to Louisiana from Baker Hughes’ (NYSE: BKR) manufacturing facility in Avenza, Italy more than two months ahead of the contractual delivery date. Each train boasts a capacity of 0.6 million tonnes per annum.

Look how much is yet to be done:

“Venture Global LNG is proud to demonstrate continued execution of the strategy we pioneered,” remarked Mike Sabel, executive co-chairman and CEO of the company. “Our factory-fabricated, modular liquefaction trains enable us to deliver the fastest construction schedule in the LNG industry while driving dramatic risk reduction across the entire project. We look forward to the successful delivery of Calcasieu Pass trains 3 through 18 and then 36 identical trains for (the) Plaquemines LNG (project along the Mississippi River south of New Orleans).”

According to Venture Global, the first two trains reached Calcasieu Pass “complete and ready to install.” The company stated that each unit was unloaded, transported to the site and positioned on its foundations in less than a day. It pointed out the trains will be connected to their respective Chart (NASDAQ: GTLS) brazed aluminum heat exchangers – also known as “cold boxes.” Eight cold boxes have already been installed, the firm added.

Venture Global observed the first pair of liquefaction trains arrived onsite less than 15 months after the final investment decision for Calcasieu Pass. The company expects the LNG facility to begin commercial operations in 2022.

More importantly, how to pronounce Calcasieu: link here -- 'calca-shoe.'

Meaning?

The name Calcasieu comes from the Atakapan word, "quelqueshue,” meaning "crying eagle.” It was originally the name of an Atakapa chief, but became the name given to what was formerly the Rio Hondo River (Rio Stondo or "Deep River"), now the Calcasieu River. The parish then inherited this name.