The Shell-led LNG Canada venture has kicked off front-end engineering and design on its British Columbia export project, which is now expected to double in size.
The partnership, which groups the Anglo-Dutch supermajor with Asian trio PetroChina, Mitsubishi and Korea Gas, this week submitted an application to Canada’s National Energy Board for a 25-year export licence to ship out 24 million tonnes per annum.
Initial plans had been for a two-train, 12 million tpa facility but the consortium now intends to move ahead with four 6 million tpa trains.
Shell said in the export application that LNG Canada is already in the FEED stage.
