Honeywell announced on Monday that its technology will be used in NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG Train 4 and Train 5 Projects in Brownsville, Texas, through an agreement with EPC contractor Bechtel.
NextDecade will use Honeywell’s coil wound heat exchanger (CWHE) equipment and C3MR process technology to “help optimize production, improve reliability, and lower facility operating expenses,” it said.
Honeywell’s LNG technology will also be used for the first three liquefaction trains at the Rio Grande LNG facility.
Air Products, which sold its LNG process technology and equipment business to Honeywell in 2024, won the contract for the first three trains in 2023.
Honeywell noted that the additional two Rio Grande trains will help increase LNG production capacity by more than 66 percent, from 18 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 30 mtpa.
All five trains are expected to become operational by mid-2031.
Honeywell did not provide the pricing details of the new contract.
NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG just secured approval from the US FERC to increase the peak workforce to up to 7,500 per day at its LNG export terminal site in Texas.
Moreover, Matt Schatzman, NextDecade chairman and CEO, recently said that the company expects to start LNG production at the first train of its Rio Grande LNG terminal in the first half of 2027.
“With 30 mtpa of expected LNG production capacity under construction and the goal of doubling our capacity to 60 mtpa on site, growth at attractive returns continues to be a primary focus for the company,” Schatzman said.
