SAN DIEGO, Nov. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra Energy
(NYSE: SRE) today announced its liquefied natural gas (LNG)
subsidiaries have filed applications with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking authorization to site,
construct and operate the proposed Port Arthur LNG natural gas
liquefaction facility along the Sabine-Neches Waterway in
Southeast Texas.
The FERC application for the proposed project includes: two
natural gas liquefaction trains capable of producing, under optimal
conditions, approximately 13.5 million metric tons per annum in the
aggregate or approximately 698 billion cubic feet of natural gas
per year; three LNG storage tanks; natural gas liquids and
refrigerant storage; feed gas pre-treatment facilities; two berths
and associated marine and loading facilities. A separate
application was filed with FERC seeking authorization to construct
natural gas pipelines to deliver natural gas to the project.
"We are pleased to continue advancing the Port Arthur LNG
project," said Octavio Simoes,
president of Sempra LNG & Midstream. "Our experience in
developing, building and operating energy infrastructure will help
us deliver a cost-competitive project to the global LNG
market."
Sempra LNG & Midstream and Woodside Energy (USA), Inc. signed a project development
agreement in February 2016 that
provides a framework for the sharing of costs related to the
development, technical design, permitting and marketing of the
proposed liquefaction project.
Ongoing development of the project is subject to a number of
risks and uncertainties and remains contingent upon completing
required commercial agreements, acquiring all necessary permits and
approvals, securing financing commitments, potential incentives and
satisfying other conditions before making a final investment
decision to proceed.
Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), based in San Diego, is a Fortune 500 energy services
holding company with 2015 revenues of more than $10 billion. The Sempra Energy companies' 17,000
employees serve more than 32 million consumers worldwide.
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the availability of electric power, natural gas and liquefied
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including disruptions caused by failures in the North American
transmission grid, moratoriums on the ability to withdraw natural
gas from or inject natural gas into storage facilities, pipeline
explosions and equipment failures; energy markets; the timing and
extent of changes and volatility in commodity prices; moves to
reduce or eliminate reliance on natural gas as an energy source;
the impact on the value of our natural gas storage and related
assets and our investments from low natural gas prices, low
volatility of natural gas prices and the inability to procure
favorable long-term contracts for natural gas storage services;
risks posed by decisions and actions of third parties who control
the operations of investments in which we do not have a controlling
interest, and risks that our partners or counterparties will be
unable (due to liquidity issues, bankruptcy or otherwise) or
unwilling to fulfill their contractual commitments; weather
conditions, natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, equipment
failures, terrorist attacks and other events that may disrupt our
operations, damage our facilities and systems, cause the release of
greenhouse gasses, radioactive materials and harmful emissions, and
subject us to third-party liability for property damage or personal
injuries, fines and penalties, some of which may not be covered by
insurance (including costs in excess of applicable policy limits)
or may be disputed by insurers; cybersecurity threats to the energy
grid, natural gas storage and pipeline infrastructure, the
information and systems used to operate our businesses and the
confidentiality of our proprietary information and the personal
information of our customers and employees; the ability to win
competitively bid infrastructure projects against a number of
strong competitors willing to aggressively bid for these projects;
capital markets conditions, including the availability of credit
and liquidity of our investments, and inflation, interest and
currency exchange rates; disallowance of regulatory assets
associated with, or decommissioning costs of, the San Onofre
Nuclear Generating Station facility due to increased regulatory
oversight, including motions to modify settlements; expropriation
of assets by foreign governments and title and other property
disputes; the impact on reliability of San Diego Gas & Electric
Company's (SDG&E) electric transmission and distribution system
due to increased amount and variability of power supply from
renewable energy sources and increased reliance on natural gas and
natural gas transmission systems; the impact on competitive
customer rates due to the growth in distributed and local power
generation and the corresponding decrease in demand for power
delivered through SDG&E's electric transmission and
distribution system; the impact on customer rates and other adverse
consequences due to possible departing retail load resulting from
customers transferring to Direct Access and Community Choice
Aggregation; the inability or determination not to enter into
long-term supply and sales agreements or long-term firm capacity
agreements due to insufficient market interest, unattractive
pricing or other factors; and other uncertainties, all of which are
difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our
control.
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Sempra International, LLC, Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, LLC,
and Sempra Partners, LP, are not the same companies as
the California utilities, San Diego Gas & Electric
(SDG&E) or Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), and
Sempra International, LLC, Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, LLC, and
Sempra Partners, LP, are not regulated by the California Public
Utilities Commission. Sempra International's underlying entities
include Sempra Mexico and Sempra South American Utilities. Sempra
U.S. Gas & Power's underlying entities include Sempra
Renewables and Sempra Natural Gas.
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