Chiyoda Corporation is pleased to announce that the first commissioning cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been shipped from the Freeport LNG project on Quintana Island in Freeport, Texas.

For Chiyoda International Corporation (CIC), a U.S. based wholly-owned subsidiary of Chiyoda, and its partners on the project, McDermott International, Inc. and Zachry Group, this is a historic moment of the project with exceptional safety performance during the construction phase. Feed gas was introduced into Freeport LNG Train 1 on July 22 and the shipping of the first cargo from Train 1 was now achieved.

The project includes three liquefaction trains with a projected export capacity of approximately 15 million tons per annum of LNG, a second loading berth and a 165,000 m3 full containment LNG storage tank.

Freeport LNG Trains 2 and 3 remain on track to meet their previously announced schedules, with Train 2 initial production of LNG scheduled for Q4 of 2019 and Train 3 initial production of LNG scheduled for Q1 of 2020.

About Chiyoda

Chiyoda Corporation(TSE: 6366; ISIN: JP3528600004), headquartered in Yokohama, Japan provides services in the fields of engineering, procurement and construction on a global basis for petroleum refineries, petrochemical complexes, other hydrocarbon or industrial plants, particularly LNG plants in the USA, South East Asia, the Oceania regions, the Middle East and Russia.