Freeport LNG has signed two 20-year liquefaction tolling agreements with Japanese off-takers Osaka Gas and Chubu Electric Power for its proposed export project in Texas.
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell has meanwhile confirmed it is talking about taking liquefaction capacity at the project.
Shell said this week: “We... executed a heads of agreement with Freeport LNG to establish an exclusive framework for potential involvement in future liquefaction trains at the existing Freeport site.”
The Japanese utilities have acquired the rights to the 4.4