Whistler Pipeline, Cheniere plot fuel pipeline in Texas to Corpus Christi LNG terminal

Pipeline expandable as much as 2.5 Bcf/d

Corpus Christi including liquefaction by way of 2031

Cheniere’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LNG terminal would obtain a brand new supply of feedgas from Texas’ Permian Basin as quickly as 2024, midstream developer WhiteWater Midstream stated Sept. 19 in asserting plans for a brand new pure fuel pipeline.

Cheniere has partnered in a three way partnership with the WhiteWater-backed Whistler Pipeline to construct the ADCC Pipeline, a 42-inch, intrastate pipeline that may run 43 miles between the terminus of the Whistler Pipeline in Agua Dulce, Texas, to Corpus Christi LNG terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast, the businesses stated Sept. 19.

The ADCC line will supply preliminary most capability of 1.7 Bcf/d in fuel provide however will be expanded to ship as much as 2.5 Bcf/d.

Midstream development

The ADCC venture comes as midstream operators throughout Texas undertake a slew of latest pipeline infrastructure tasks to help booming demand for LNG exports from the Gulf Coast.

Whistler Pipeline, which is backed by MPLX, Stonepeak Infrastructure Companions and West Texas Gasoline along with WhiteWater, in Might signed ultimate funding resolution on a 500 MMcf/d enlargement that may deliver its complete capability to 2.5 Bcf/d by late 2023. Whistler was first positioned into service in 2021 and originates close to the Waha pricing hub within the Permian Basin.

Along with the Whistler enlargement, midstream infrastructure tasks are anticipated so as to add round 4.1 Bcf/d in takeaway capability from the Permian Basin by 2024, with a lot of that fuel certain for demand facilities within the Gulf Coast and past. WhiteWater’s greenfield Matterhorn Categorical Pipeline is slated so as to add round 2.5 Bcf/d in takeaway capability when it enters service within the third quarter of 2024, whereas Kinder Morgan expects to wrap expansions on its Gulf Coast Categorical Pipeline and Permian Freeway Pipeline property by the tip of subsequent 12 months.

LNG issue

Demand for feedgas at US LNG terminals has just lately cooled from a pre-summer frenzy, due partly to a lingering outage on the 15 million mt/12 months Freeport LNG export terminal. However LNG feedgas demand at US terminals has nonetheless averaged a record-high 11.8 Bcf/d so far in 2022, in line with knowledge from S&P International Commodity Insights, and is prone to increase even additional in coming years as firms add liquefaction capability alongside the Gulf Coast.

Cheniere’s Corpus Christi facility will contribute to that increasing demand. The corporate in June licensed a ultimate funding resolution on a ten million mt/yr enlargement at Corpus Christi that may deliver complete liquefaction capability on the facility to 25 million mt/yr by 2025.

Corpus Christi at the moment receives fuel from Cheniere’s 2.75 Bcf/d, 21-mile Corpus Christi Pipeline, which connects with a couple of main pipelines traversing south Texas, together with Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Gasoline Pipeline. Cheniere can also be at work on the Stage 3 Pipeline, a bi-directional pipeline working parallel to the Corpus Christi Pipeline, forward of the 2025 Corpus Christi enlargement.

However Cheniere has signaled that much more liquefaction capability could possibly be on the best way on the Corpus Christi facility, seemingly necessitating its funding in ADCC. Final month, the corporate entered the Federal Power Regulatory Fee’s pre-filing course of for the so-called Midscale Trains 8 & 9 Venture at Corpus Christi, saying in a submitting that feedgas for 2 new 1.64 million mt/12 months trains would arrive through the Corpus Christi Pipeline and “a non-jurisdictional intrastate pipeline.”

Forward of that submitting, Cheniere in June dedicated $93 million for a 30% stake within the ADCC pipeline venture, in line with its second quarter earnings report printed final month.

Cheniere plans to file a proper utility with FERC in February 2023 for plans to execute the most recent proposed enlargement at Corpus Christi, with a focused in-service date in 2031.