据天然气管道杂志网11月1日路透社报道，美国最大的液化天然气出口商钱尼尔能源公司周五表示，预计其位于德克萨斯州的科珀斯克里斯蒂(Corpus Christi )LNG出口工厂的第三条液化生产线将提前于2021年上半年完工。
早些时候，该公司表示，预计将在2021年下半年完成这条生产线。这将延续钱尼尔和柏克德（BECHTEL）工程公司的模式，建设液化生产线的工程公司，会按计划和预算提前完成装置。
钱尼尔还在第三季度财报中表示，预计在2023年上半年完成其位于路易斯安那州萨宾帕斯LNG出口工厂的第六条生产线。
该公司表示，科珀斯3大约已完成68.6％，而萨宾6则已完成约38.1％。
在早盘交易中，钱尼尔的股价上涨了2.5%，至63.05美元。
钱尼尔在萨宾运营5条液化生产线，在科珀斯运营2条生产线。
每条生产线每天能液化约7亿立方英尺的天然气。10亿立方英尺足以满足约500万户美国家庭一天的需求量。
此外，该公司正在科珀斯开发7条中型LNG出口生产线，称为第3阶段，日液化能力约为12.5亿立方英尺。
钱尼尔表示希望在2020年做出建设科珀斯阶段3的决定，这将使该工厂能够在2023年投入使用。
萨宾是美国本土的48个州首家投入使用的大型LNG出口设施。当萨宾于2016年2月装运第一批货物时，美国没有出口任何液化天然气。
此后，该国在2018年成为世界第四大燃料出口国，仅次于卡塔尔、澳大利亚和马来西亚，并有望超越马来西亚，在2019年成为第三大出口国，2024年成为全球第一大石油出口国。
从正在建设的码头来看，到2019年底，美国LNG的日总出口量预计将从现在的68亿立方英尺，增加到69亿立方英尺，到2020年达到96亿立方英尺。
钱尼尔估计萨宾的前五条生产线的成本（包含融资）在175亿美元至185亿美元之间，而科珀斯的前三条生产线，融资后的成本预计在150亿美元至160亿美元之间。
钱尼尔表示已与Bechtel签订了25亿美元的合同，旨在建造萨宾6液化生产线。
郝芬 译自 天然气管道网
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Cheniere Targets Early Start of Texas LNG Exports: First Half 2021
Cheniere Energy Inc said on Friday it expects to reach substantial completion of the third liquefaction train at its Corpus Christi LNG export plant in Texas earlier than previously expected in the first half of 2021.
Earlier, the company said it expected to complete the train in the second half of 2021. This would continue a pattern for Cheniere and Bechtel, the engineering firm building the trains, of completing units ahead of schedule and on budget.
Cheniere also said in its third quarter earnings release that it expects to complete the sixth train at its Sabine Pass LNG export plant in Louisiana in the first half of 2023.
The company said Corpus 3 was about 68.6% complete and Sabine 6 was about 38.1% complete.
Shares of Cheniere were up about 2.5% to $63.05 in morning trade.
Cheniere has five liquefaction trains operating at Sabine and two at Corpus.
Each train is capable of liquefying about 0.7 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of gas. One billion cubic feet is enough to supply about five million U.S. homes for a day.
In addition, the company is developing seven midscale LNG export trains at Corpus, called Stage 3, with a total capacity to liquefy about 1.25 bcfd of gas.
Cheniere has said it hopes to make a decision to build Corpus Stage 3 in 2020, which would enable the plant to enter service in 2023.
Sabine was the first big LNG export facility to enter service in the Lower 48 U.S. states. When Sabine shipped its first cargo in February 2016, the United States was not exporting any LNG.
Since then, the country has became the fourth-biggest exporter of the fuel in the world in 2018, behind Qatar, Australia and Malaysia, and is on track to overtake Malaysia and become the third-biggest in 2019 and the biggest in the world in 2024.
Looking at terminals under construction, total U.S. LNG export capacity is expected to rise to 6.9 bcfd by the end of 2019 and 9.6 bcfd in 2020 from 6.8 bcfd now.
Cheniere has estimated the cost of the first five trains at Sabine, including financing, at between $17.5 billion and $18.5 billion, while the first three trains at Corpus are expected to cost between $15 billion and $16 billion after financing.
Cheniere said it has a $2.5 billion contract with Bechtel to build Sabine 6.
