Development of Venture Global LNG Inc.’s Plaquemines liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal is heating up with a succession of engineering and procurement contracts.

Venture Global Plaquemines LNG

Baker Hughes Co. (BKR) announced March 9 that Venture Global had awarded it with a major order for equipment and the notice to proceed on work for the 20 million metric tons/year (mmty) terminal in Plaquemines Parish, LA. The first phase of Plaquemines is expected to produce 10 mmty of LNG.

BKR’s facility in Italy would manufacture the 24 modularized compression trains that are planned to start arriving pre-assembled sometime in the first half of 2023. BKR and Venture Global have said the installation plan and timeline for Plaquemines will resemble those for Calcasieu Pass LNG, which BKR also worked on in 2019 and...