Venture Global's Plaquemines plant set to produce first LNG, data shows
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By Curtis Williams
HOUSTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - VentureGlobal LNG is on track to inaugurate liquefied natural gas (LNG) production atits Plaquemines export plantin Louisiana as soon as this week, LSEG data shows.
The startup will mark the first new U.S. plant this year to produce the superchilled gas, beating Cheniere Energy's LNG.N Corpus Christi midscale expansion project to market.
Plaquemines' 20 million metric tons per annum (MTPA) plant will cement Venture Global as the second-largest LNG exporter in the United States by capacity, and ensure that the United States remains the world's largest exporter of the superchilled gas.
The Louisiana export plantwas setto draw over 100 million cubic feet (mmcfd)of natural gas for the first time on Thursday, data from financial firm LSEG showed.
U.S. regulators gave Venture Global permission on Thursday tocommission its sixth of 18 blocks at Plaquemines, a document shows. Each block in the plant has two trains and utilize 150 mmcfd of gas.
Reporting by Curtis Williams in Houston; Editing by Mark Porter
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