据路透社10月25日报道，墨西哥能源基础设施公司IENOVA首席执行官表示，该公司预计将做出最终投资决定（FID），于2020年初在墨西哥建造其Costa Azul LNG出口工厂的第一阶段。

IENOVA首席执行官Tania Ortiz Mena Lopez Negrete在周四的收益电话会议上告诉分析师们，该公司正在进行工程、采购和建筑（EPC）的投标过程，以便选择一个承包商并确定该设施的资本支出。

她说，投标过程将持续到今年年底。

她还说，该公司正在与其客户、法国道达尔、日本三井以及日本东京天然气公司谈判最终协议。

此外，她还说，该公司正在获得墨西哥项目所需的最后一个主要许可证——天然气出口许可证。

该公司表示，位于下加利福尼亚的该项目将于2023年首次交付LNG。

Costa Azul是北美正在开发的几十个LNG出口项目之一，这些项目正在寻求供应世界日益增长的天然气需求。

如果建成，Costa Azul将比大多数美国项目拥有优势，因为它将更接近亚洲市场，比如中国，对天然气的需求增长最快。

Costa Azul第一阶段设计为单列液化设施，每年可生产约240万吨LNG，相当于每天约3.2亿立方英尺天然气。

该设施将设在该公司现有LNG进口终端，该终端自2008年起开始运作，可处理约10亿立方英尺/日的天然气。（注：10亿立方英尺的天然气足够每天为500万户美国家庭提供燃料）

詹晓晶 摘自 路透社

原文如下：

IENOVA expects decision on Mexico Costa Azul LNG export plant in early 2020

Infraestructura Energetica Nova SAB de CV’s (IENOVA) chief executive said the company expects to make a final investment decision (FID) to build the first phase of its Costa Azul liquefied natural gas export plant in Mexico in early 2020:

Tania Ortiz Mena Lopez Negrete, IENOVA’s CEO, told analysts in an earnings call on Thursday that the company was running the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) bid process in order to select a contractor and determine the capital expenditure for the facility.

She said that bid process will be ongoing through the end of the year.

She also said the company was in the process of negotiating definitive agreements with its customers, Total SA of France and Mitsui & Co and Tokyo Gas Co Ltd of Japan.

In addition she said the company was in the process of obtaining the last major permit needed for the project in Mexico - the gas export permit.

The company has said the project, located in Baja California, could make its first LNG deliveries in 2023.

Costa Azul is one of dozens of LNG export projects under development in North America that are seeking to supply the world’s growing demand for natural gas.

If built, Costa Azul will have an advantage over most U.S. projects because it will be much closer to Asian markets, like China, where demand for gas is growing fastest as homes and businesses switch from dirty coal to cleaner gas for environmental reasons.

The first phase of Costa Azul is designed to be a single-train liquefaction facility capable of producing about 2.4 million tonnes per year (MTPA) of LNG, equal to about 0.32 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of natural gas.

The facility will be located at the company’s existing LNG import terminal, which can process about 1 bcfd of gas. The import facility has been operating since 2008.

One billion cubic feet of gas is enough to fuel about 5 million U.S. homes for a day.