据路透社5月13日报道，KBR公司成为Freeport液化天然气公司位于德克萨斯州的Freeport液化天然气 (LNG) 出口工厂第四条生产线的工程、采购、建设和调试（EPC）合同的优先竞标公司。
KBR 在一份新闻稿中表示，预计确定价格的EPC合同将于本季度签订，随后会有一些有限的通知去跟进，并在2019年下半年发出全面通知。
Freeport 表示，将在第二季度对4条成产线做出最终投资决定，而该工厂则预计将于2023年或2024年投入运营。
Freeport表示，1号生产线有望在今年第三季度投入服务；随后，2号成产线将在2020年第一季度投入服务；3号生产线将在2020年第二季度投入服务。
当Freeport开始在这个耗资130亿美元的工厂建造前三条生产线时，该公司预计这三条生产线将在2018年第四季度至2019年第四季度期间投入服务。
与KBR竞争的工程公司McDermott国际公司是Freeport前三条生产线的主要承包商。
作为该项目的私人开发商，Freeport表示，该工厂的第一批货物可能会在 7月底产出。
在Freeport的每条生产线的年产能约为500万吨液化天然气或约7亿立方英尺/日的天然气，而10亿立方英尺的天然气足够每天为500万户美国家庭提供燃料。
Freeport持有20年的合同，将1号生产线生产的LNG出售给日本天然气公司大阪天然气有限公司和JERA（日本电力公司东京电力控股公司和中部电力公司的合资公司），而出售给英国石油巨头英国石油的LNG来自2号生产线，出售给日本东芝公司和韩国能源公司SK E&S的LNG来自3号生产线。
Freeport还与一家跨国大宗商品贸易公司达成了一项为期三年的协议，从2020年7月开始向其每年出售500万吨的液化天然气。
Freeport表示，它正致力于达成一项为期20年的交易，将4号生产线生产的LNG出售给日本贸易公司住友集团旗下的一家子公司，交易量为每年220万吨液化天然气。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Freeport picks KBR as preferred bidder for 4th Texas LNG export train
Freeport LNG picked KBR Inc as the preferred bidder for the engineering, procurement,construction, and commissioning (EPC) contract for the fourth liquefaction train at Freeport's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Texas:
In a release, KBR said it expects the fixed price EPC contract will be concluded this quarter and will be followed by a limited notice to proceed, with a full notice to proceed in the second half of 2019.
Freeport has said it could make a final investment decision Freeport has said Train 1 is When Freeport started building the first three trains at the $13 billion facility it projected the units would enter service between the fourth quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2019.
Rival engineering firm McDermott International Inc is the lead contractor for the first three units at Freeport.
Freeport, the privately held developer of the project, has said the first cargoes from the plant would likely start in late July.
Each train at Freeport will have the capacity to produce about 5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of LNG or around 0.7 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of natural gas. Freeport has said it has 20-year contracts to sell LNG to Japanese gas company Osaka Gas Co Ltd and JERA – an alliance between Japanese power companies Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings Inc and Chubu Electric Power Co Inc from Train 1, British oil major BP Plc from Train 2 and Japanese engineering firm Toshiba Corp and South Korean energy company SK E&S from Train 3.
Freeport also has a three-year deal to sell 0.5 MTPA of LNG to multinational commodity trading firm Trafigura Group Pte Ltd starting in July 2020.
Freeport has said it is working