据能源信息统计8月7日消息，美国联邦能源监管委员会(FERC)已批准自由港液化天然气公司(Freeport LNG)开始从其位于得克萨斯州自由港金塔纳岛年产能1500万吨的自由港液化天然气工厂开始出口调试货物。
液化项目经FERC审核后，准予开工。2018年8月，FERC批准了自由港液化天然气首列液化列车的试运行，该列车预计将于2019年9月至2020年5月投入使用。预计所有三列液化天然气列车将在2020年年中全面投入运营。
第四列液化列车，据评估年产能达到500万吨，可能在2023年投产，将液化厂的产能提高到2000万/年。根据与大阪燃气公司、JERA、BP、道达尔公司和SK E&S公司签订的为期20年的收费协议，约1350万吨/年的液化天然气已按合约售出，并将从2020年开始，根据一份为期3年的购销协议，每年向托克公司额外出售出售50万吨液化天然气。
裘寅 编译自 ENERDATA
原文如下：
US FERC allows Freeport LNG to export commissioning cargo
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has granted Freeport LNG a permit to start exporting commissioning cargoes from the 15 Mt/year Freeport LNG plant on Quintana Island in Freeport, Texas (United States).
The liquefaction project will be granted the approval for commencement of service after a FERC review. In August 2018, the FERC approved the commissioning of the first liquefaction train of Freeport LNG, which is expected to enter in service between September 2019 and May 2020. All three LNG trains are expected to be fully operational by mid-2020.
A fourth train - also be rated 5 Mt/year and it could be commissioned as of 2023, raising the liquefaction plant's capacity to 20 Mt/year. Around 13.5 Mt/year has already been contracted under 20-year tolling agreemnts to Osaka Gas, JERA, BP, Total and SK E&S and an additional 0.5 Mt/year will be sold to Trafigura under a 3-year sales and purchase agreement starting in 2020.
