Mexico's 7.8mn t/yr Amigo LNG export project has sold enough capacity to cover the first of its two proposed liquefaction trains after Macquarie raised its contracted offtake, according to a filing with the US Department of Energy (DOE).
The project has now sold 4.35mn t/yr under binding contracts after Macquarie on 8 May increased its volume to 1mn t/yr from 600,000 t/yr, according to a DOE filing on 1 June. The project has also sold 600,000 t/yr to Nigeria's Sahara Energy, 900,000 t/yr to Oman's OQ Trading, 850,000 t/yr to Swiss trader Gunvor and 1mn t/yr to the UAE's IRH.
Amigo LNG also has a non-binding deal with Malaysia's E&H to supply 3.6mn t/yr.
Project developers LNG Alliance and Epcilon plan to build the project as a floating terminal off the coast of Sonora's Guaymas port on the Gulf of California, which connects to the Pacific Ocean. It would comprise a first train with a nominal capacity of 3.9mn t/yr and a design capacity of 4.2mn t/yr, with plans for a second train of the same size. The terminal's gas would come from the Permian basin of west Texas and New Mexico, putting it under the DOE's purview.
