Cheniere Marketing and Central El Campesino Sign Agreement for Corpus Christi LNG Supplies
Cheniere Energy announced that its subsidiary Cheniere Marketing International LLP has entered into an LNG sale and purchase agreement with Central El Campesino, under which Central El Campesino would purchase approximately 0.6 million tonnes per year of LNG delivered ex-ship for 20 years beginning in 2019 from the Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project currently under construction near Corpus Christi, Texas. According to the press release, the LNG would be delivered, stored and regasified at a proposed floating storage regasification unit (FSRU), the Penco Lirquén LNG Terminal, for use at a 640 MW gas-fired combined-cycle power plant being developed by Central El Campesino in Chile.