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Liquefaction
Liquefaction is the step that turns pipeline gas into a liquid at minus 162 degrees Celsius, shrinking it about 600 times so it can be shipped. A train is one complete refrigeration line: compressors, heat exchangers and their drivers. Very few firms license the process, and fewer still can build the exchangers at its heart.
Export terminals
252
1790 Mtpa operating
Under construction
429 Mtpa
liquefaction being built
Floating liquefaction
61
FLNG terminals and vessels
Who supplies this segment
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Licenses the AP-C3MR, AP-X, AP-DMR and AP-SMR liquefaction processes and manufactures the coil-wound heat exchangers at the cold heart of most large LNG trains.
Supplies the LM2500, LM6000 and LM9000 aeroderivative gas turbines that drive main refrigerant compressors, along with the compressors and expander-compressors themselves.
Engineers and builds liquefaction trains, having delivered six trains at Sabine Pass and worked on Corpus Christi, Port Arthur and Rio Grande.
Licenses PRICO, a single mixed refrigerant process applied at 35 facilities and used on several of the world's floating liquefaction vessels.
Supplies the IPSMR integrated pre-cooled single mixed refrigerant process together with the brazed aluminium heat exchangers and cold boxes used in mid-scale liquefaction.
Has delivered 26 LNG projects covering 47 trains since 1976, and builds LNG storage tanks and cleaner plant designs using electric drives and carbon capture.
Licenses the Optimized Cascade process, which uses three cascaded pure-refrigerant circuits with brazed aluminium heat exchangers, and has been licensed for 28 LNG trains.
Delivers liquefaction EPC in joint venture with JGC, including the LNG Canada plant at Kitimat, where Fluor booked its 8.4 billion dollar share of the roughly 14 billion dollar contract.
Has built LNG plants totalling 48 trains, over 30 per cent of world capacity, including the LNG Canada plant in joint venture with Fluor.
Provides EPC and front-end design for liquefaction and regasification, with more than 40 years in LNG and projects including Tangguh, Yemen LNG and Nigeria LNG Train 6.
Builds and modularises LNG plants, having worked on more than 20 LNG facilities across seven liquefaction technologies, including the Calcasieu Pass export terminal.
Builds world-scale and small to mid-scale LNG plants and is one of the few makers of coil-wound cryogenic heat exchangers, with more than 1,000 delivered.
Through CB&I Storage Solutions, designs and builds full containment LNG storage tanks and cryogenic terminals, drawing on more than 60 years in the LNG sector.
Builds the main refrigerant compressors that circulate refrigerant through an LNG train's cryogenic heat exchangers, plus fuel gas compressors handling intake below minus 60 degrees.
Delivers onshore, gravity-based and floating LNG projects as an EPC contractor, and licenses its Liqueflex process for small to medium-scale liquefaction.
Builds LNG storage tanks and receiving terminals, including three 187,000 cubic metre tanks and loading facilities for Qatar's North Field expansion, and earlier terminals in Singapore and Malaysia.
Licenses the DMR dual mixed refrigerant process, used at Sakhalin, Prelude and LNG Canada, and the parallel mixed refrigerant PMR process for trains of 6 to 11 Mtpa.
Supplies electric-driven refrigeration trains for LNG plants: compressors, synchronous motors, variable speed drives and the associated electrical systems.
Has engineered and built liquefaction terminals totalling more than 105 Mtpa, and offers the SnapLNG modular train design alongside onshore, offshore and mid-scale plants.
Builds floating liquefaction facilities, fabricating hull and topside modules in parallel at its own yards, with a standardised 3.5 Mtpa FLNG design.
Constructs liquefaction terminals, notably the Freeport LNG trains in joint venture with CB&I, each designed for more than 4.4 Mtpa.
Largest liquefaction projects
Export terminals in the tracker, by operating capacity.
| Terminal | Country | Status | Operating | Building |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sabine Pass LNG Terminal | United States | Operating | 60.4 | — |
| QatarEnergy LNG (N) | Qatar | Operating | 40.8 | — |
| QatarEnergy LNG (S) | Qatar | Operating | 36.3 | — |
| Rio Grande LNG Terminal | United States | Under construction | — | 29.6 |
| LNG Canada Terminal | Canada | Operating | 28 | — |
| Port Arthur LNG Terminal | United States | Under construction | — | 26 |
| Nigeria LNG Terminal | Nigeria | Operating | 22.2 | 4.2 |
| Arzew-Bethioua LNG Terminal | Algeria | Operating | 20.8 | — |
| CP2 LNG Terminal | United States | Under construction | — | 20 |
| Yamal LNG Terminal | Russia | Operating | 17.4 | — |
| Freeport LNG Terminal | United States | Operating | 16.5 | — |
| Woodside Louisiana LNG Terminal | United States | Under construction | — | 16.5 |