Cheniere Starts Work on $8 Billion Expansion of LNG Facility near Corpus Christi

Prep work has begun on the third stage of Cheniere Energy’s liquefied natural gas plant in Gregory, near Corpus Christi.

The work is projected to be finished in 2025 and will add to the already-built $17 billion facility to include seven additional production lines, or “trains,” that operate independently to produce liquefied natural gas at a rate of about 5 million tons annually. Two larger trains were commissioned in 2019 and currently remain in use. “That takes us up to a little over $25 billion right here in the Coastal Bend,” said Cheniere’s Jack Fusco, “We are extremely excited for that.”

Houston-based Cheniere is the largest U.S. exporter of liquefied natural gas and operates facilities near Gregory in San Patricio County and at Sabine Pass in Louisiana, the latter of which is the largest LNG facility in the nation.

More than 2,500 workers will be working at peak construction on the expansion. About 750 employees operate the existing portion of the facility.